Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Compounded of despair and loneliness, this is the kind of mental ballast that is inevitably tied down by chains of cynicism. Rays of compassion in poems and plays notwithstanding, Williams cannot hold back part of the contempt he feels for man and his role on earth. In Carrousel Tune it comes...
...roll is a symptom of a condition that can produce delinquency." Even Boston's fired-up anti-r. & r. campaigners concede that "it is a fad that has been adopted by the hoodium element, and that's where the trouble starts." A Bridgeport, Conn, mental hygiene expert with a long memory feels that the music is no more suggestive than swing, and that the youthful dances are no more dangerous than the Charleston. Pop Record Maker Mitch Miller, no rock 'n' roller, sums up for the defense: "You can't call any music immoral...
Professor (of social studies) Wootton gave no pat prescription for resolving the dilemma, but confided: "For my own part I must confess that I can never listen to panegyrics of mental health as smooth personal adjustment without being haunted by the ghost of that most misfitting of all misfits-Florence Nightingale. Had that astonishing woman been born of this generation, must we suppose that a Child Guidance Clinic would have put an early stop to all her nonsense...
...psychiatrists are busy digesting a mass of research reports on the revolutionary use of drugs to relieve tension and to make mental patients more accessible to treatment. How are the early "tranquilizer" drugs standing up under the test of time? And how do the new ones look? The investigators' answers fall out of date almost as soon as printed, because new drugs and fresh research reports are coming out so fast. But here are the answers to date...
Chlorpromazine (brand name: Thorazine), first of the ataraxics or tranquilizing drugs used in North America, has clinched its leadership as the one most generally effective in treating the severe mental illnesses that usually need hospitalization. The earlier used, the better. It is best in agitated cases, least effective (and occasionally harmful) in the depressed. After three years of experience with it, doctors are less jittery, though still wary, about undesirable reactions-lowering of blood pressure, damage to the liver or white blood cells...