Word: mental
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...seriously mentally ill man. I wish to inform Harvard students of general information concerning mental illness...
Today, roughly one in four families have a mentally ill person as at least a relative. But this fact is not realized by the general public largely due to the fact that people do not talk about their problems related to mental illness...
Homosexuality was described as a disease, a mental illness, the most mortal of sins. Its carriers were monsters or, the luckier ones, martyrs. With few exceptions they have been members of the movies' creepiest underclass: the men more feminine than the heroine, foils to make the hero look more masculine; the women as big as truck drivers and miles meaner. And that was on the rare occasions when they were there at all. Mostly, homosexuals have had nonperson status in movies. What a destiny, in movies or in life: to be either reviled or invisible...
Officials at the state Deparment of Mental Retardation said yesterday they support granting the former students "reasonable compensation...
...Malevich, and a Dutchman, Piet Mondrian--came, more or less simultaneously, to believe that pure form, in opposing what they saw as the deadly materialism of European culture, could open the way to a world of pure spirit. Abstraction would become a language, the key to utopian states of mental and social harmony that had been only dimly implied in art before. Abstract art would be the music of the spheres for the 20th century, manifesting, wrote Malevich, "the spiritual, therefore the divine, the universal...