Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Szasz condemned the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for refusing to protect the rights of "persons accused of mental illness." Szasz compared commitment to an institution with slavery, and recalled that the ACLU also supported the confinement of Japanese-Americans in internment camps during World War II.
In my estimation this is a viable criticism. But the question I ask is: how many Biology majors are doing this? How many people leave Harvard with the liberal, well-rounded education that the educators of this institution desire us to have? I believe that one of the reasons a...
Discussion should not revolve around whether wife beating or husband beating is the more prevalent; rather, we should take a good look at the institution of marriage. Perhaps the wedding license should read WARNING: THE SURGEON GENERAL HAS DETERMINED THAT MARRIAGE IS DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH.
And although it's almost a maxim in Greene's world that cynics will always be cynics, the novelist usually does try to convince us that under their hard shells his anti-heroes really do want desperately to believe. If not in politics or in love, (at least not for...
This description of the film's story plays it false, makes it seem somehow a schematic representation of a textbook family, when in fact the people of Paradise are carefully particularized. The film is the first time that Gunnel Lindblom, an actress in several Ingmar Bergman movies, has directed...