Word: mental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...learn that a distinguished group of Washington eggheads in the mental-health ward says that I must not feel "hostile" if my child is "queered" by one of our nation's 12 million homos...
...year-old Kentucky railroad worker, was slowly dying of a kidney disease. According to doctors, the only therapy that could save him was a kidney transplant, and the best donor would be Tommy's brother Jerry, 27. But Jerry, though he idolizes Tommy, is confined to a state mental hospital. Even if he had fully understood the crisis, Jerry was mentally incompetent to authorize surgery on himself...
When the boys' mother asked a court to authorize the transplant operation, the guardian appointed by the state to represent Jerry in the case objected. The state, he argued, had no power to approve the removal of an organ from a mental incompetent. Even so, the court approved the surgery on the ground that Jerry's well-being "would be jeopardized more severely by the loss of his brother than the removal of a kidney...
...been fighting it for twelve years. I have to put cream in my nasal passages, but sometimes my nose swells up anyway, and I chew gum. They say that helps. And I have to keep washing out my eyes. You know, they say that smog can affect your mental outlook, damage the brain...
...principle and in practice, only in the firm rejection of any political test and on the firm ground of academic integrity and academic liberty. Otherwise, you will surely get, to quote Blake again, "hirelings in the camp, the court, and the university, who would. if they could forever depress mental and prolong corporal...