Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Joseph Ferdinand ("Professor Sea Gull," "The Mongoose") Gould, 68, self-styled "Last of the Bohemians," colorful, scraggy-bearded habitue of Greenwich Village bars and Bowery flophouses; in Pilgrim State (mental) Hospital, Brentwood, N.Y. A descendant of silk-stockinged Boston families, Harvardman CTI) Gould was a onetime (1916-17) New York Evening Mail police reporter, a sometime literary critic, since 1917 had worked with savage intensity on a huge (more than 9,000,000 words) "history of people." Unpublished and unfinished, Gould's An Oral History of Our Time was illegibly scribbled in hundreds of nickel notebooks, which...
President made his own "New Life Movement" sound like nothing so much as a South Seas version of Red China's "rectification" campaign. "Our nation, building itself anew, needs the support of a mental revolution," declared Sukarno. "Mentally we must be completely rejuvenated-washed clean...
Then Spellbinder Sukarno warmed up. "Start a mental revolution," he cried. "Throw away all laziness, all egocentricity, all greed, all lawlessness, all degeneration, all luxury, all opportunism, all immorality. The year 1957 is our year of decision. Shall we survive or shall we perish? We have come to the point of no return. As from this day let us launch the New Life Movement. Let us not meet it with cynicism, derision and ridicule . . . because, in truth, the intention is good. It is a movement to forge the Indonesian into a new man-purehearted, steelwilled, with the spirit...
...dossier to the Medical Bureau. If a patient later declares himself helped or cured, he is immediately examined by a doctor in attendance, who reports in turn to the bureau. This body of doctors (all Roman Catholic) meets almost every day at the height of the season, automatically rejects mental and nervous ailments and all cases of paralysis, unless definitely established as organic in origin. Fewer than ten of some 200 cases a year are considered worthy of further investigation...
...Internal Revenue Service has cracked down, holding that the membership is sought for prestige, is therefore no proper business expense. Two psychiatrists are suing to have their right of deduction confirmed, arguing that to carry on his profession, an analytic psychiatrist needs a higher degree of mental health than other men. If the Revenue Service will not come around to allowing deduction of the full cost as a business expense, analysts in the making might still settle for treating their analysis bills as medical expenses, thus charging off some portion. ¶ Two Kansans filed suit against medical laboratories and highway...