Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is nothing fundamentally new about the insight that Christian ethics are corporate rather than individualistic. The medieval monasteries, for example, were dedicated to serving their communities as well as to praising God in communal prayer; the Mennonites and Quakers have always emphasized brotherly love and peace rather than dogma...
The $96 million college, to be built with state and federal funds, would, of course, have brought jobs to Newark's whites and Negroes alike. But as originally planned early last year, it would also have uprooted some 20,000 Negroes from housing on the 150 acres of Central...
Over the past century, these civil commitment procedures have deprived millions of "mentally ill" people of their liberty. And once a person has been committed to a mental institution, he stands a good chance of remaining there for the rest of his life.
Take the case of Miss Mae Dean, a 64-year-old registered nurse who was involuntarily committed to a mental institution for four years. The New York Times of July 27, 1960, said:
"None of the cells has a toilet. Every cell has a solid wood door, with a small peek-hole, and an uncovered bucket for toilet purposes. In the morning the men bring their buckets to a central depository. . . . There is not a thermostat in the entire 87-year-old institution...