Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these people, in varying degrees, were physically handicapped. But their worst trouble did not lie in their weakened or useless muscles. They had crutches in their minds. Ridding the physically handicapped of their mental crutches is the job of an organization that has already changed the lives and attitudes of Martin, Ellen and Mr. Juskalian. Its name: Courage...
...organization's 250 handicapped members-ranging from college professors to mechanics-take over where the professional staff leaves off, drawing patients into their social life, helping each other overcome mental blocks, trying to find jobs and work out transportation problems. Although most Courage members live in the New York City area, several other cities have already asked to set up chapters. Courage's President Philip Guba, 35, a corporation lawyer who caught polio in Indonesia 2½years ago, is currently working with Courage's 21 directors to broaden the organization. Their goal: a nationwide Courage...
...seething French thriller. Forget the yellow shirt and the unsigned promise. In the vein of a sardonic O. Henry, Diabolique sometimes is ghoulish and gross, and is never very subtle. The ending, quite as startling as the man in the yellow shirt had you believe, induces a feeling of mental ineptitude. You wonder whether you weren't paying attention at the critical moment; perhaps it's because the director, Henri-Georges Clouzot, is simply a very clever...
...Children's Psychiatric Unit at the University of Michigan Hospital. Though the six-story, yellow brick building was barely finished, 30-odd children from the ages of six to twelve had been moved in. The unit's capacity: 75. That is sizable for a children's mental hospital, though many thousands of children in the U.S. need psychiatric hospital care...
...Children's mental illnesses vary widely and cannot be pigeonholed into neat categories. To avoid sticking themselves with the pin on a diagnostic label, many psychiatrists prefer to lump all juvenile mental patients under the cliche heading "emotionally disturbed...