Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...returned. Irritated by his lonely existence, Adin finally lit on a group of neighbors and told them to stay away altogether. About this time a nephew decided Adin was showing signs of insanity. He had a talk with Psychologist Jacob Goering at Brook Lane, a Mennonite hospital for mental care. On the basis of the nephew's description, bolstered by talks with Adin's wife, Goering decided that Adin was dangerously unbalanced...
...time since his excommunication. Before he knew what was happening, four of them had laid him flat on the stone floor before the milk shed. A woman shoved a hypodermic into his left arm. Adin soon lost consciousness, and was driven across the state line to Philhaven, another Mennonite mental hospital in Lebanon, Pa. No outsider might have known anything about it if a passerby had not chanced to see Adin's brethren loading his limp body into the station wagon. Several days later, he got around to telling the district attorney. Authorities established that Adin was missing...
...yarn was an eventual certainty for TV. It also marked Kanin's first crack at TV directing. He was surprised at the prissiness of TV censors: four of the several references to Billie as a "broad" had to go. Anything that might be construed as a reference to mental illness was also cut: "crazy broad" became "dizzy broad." "Off her nut" became "blow her stack." Suggestions of physical impairment were primly deleted, viz., Billie, trying on her glasses, to Harry: "What's so funny? That I'm blind practically?" Network censors thought the most offensive line...
...Renaissance ideals into an academic package of rules and theories merely opened the door wide to the host of imitators that to this day grinds out tearful madonnas or resurrected Christs borne heavenward by muscular angels and simpering cherubim. But their virtuoso talents, turning back from the feverish mental imagery of the mannerists, also served as a transmission belt between the Renaissance and the three new paths Western art was to follow in the next two centuries. The ennobling gestures and grand manner were picked up by Rubens when he visited Rome, became a feeder line for the rhetoric...
...funds for highways and schools in a state that is traditionally short-changed in government spending. Furcolo has also proposed the establishment of a network of regional colleges, a state scholarship program, a new medical and dental college, increased old age assistance, and a stronger state program for mental hospitals...