Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Extremely happy to see your item about the Sad Sacks. I have spent some time around mental hospitals and prisons where I "accidentally" had access to files of psychiatric diagnosis. Uhler's note on the "Army's evasive psychiatric procedures by which a precise diagnosis was avoided in favor of mere description and paraphrase" would be a kind way to state the chaotic, uncritical "diagnosis" of psychiatrists in general...
Discussion and adoption of a new constitution is the principle item on the agenda of the American Veterans Committee meeting tomorrow evening at 3 o'clock at Littauer Center...
...UNRRA's roofless house were still ten hungry countries-and nearly one million D.P.s of 55 nations. The D.P.s were UNRRA's most urgent item of unfinished business. Less than 10% would be repatriated by 1947. About 97,000 were Jews, most of whom did not want to go back to the lands from which terror had driven them; many non-Jews were equally reluctant to go home, either because they feared political persecution, or simply because many knew that they would eat better inside D.P. camps than outside. The incredible fact was that virtually no plans...
...item in the treatment was heavy feeding. Patients had to take a minimum of 100 grams of liquid or solid protein a day, were threatened with tube feeding if they balked...
From now on, there was to be Dignity in radio humor. To insure it, gags would be censored as never before (see below). Nevertheless, radio would continue to devote more time to a bore and a nuisance-the audience-participation show-than to any other single item...