Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This cautiousness, the second half lapses all seem to point to a mental problem. The difference between last year and this year is that the booters know they are good, that they can play with anyone. In the back of their minds, they seem to be waiting for the good things to happen...
...silence. One Ko Tayou villager who fled to Thailand last month was Kim Am, 42, a Canadian-trained physician who survived the purges by masquerading as an illiterate peasant. According to Kim, at least 80% of the Cambodians he observed before his flight were suffering from some form of mental illness. "The only emotional outlet in Cambodia is thinking about escape," he said. "Sometimes a change of environment can cure such problems, but I'm afraid most of our people have been permanently damaged." Which is another way of saying that Kampuchea's national song is no longer an anthem...
There is plenty to investigate. Early in the play, we learn that mental patients wander around the town's hospital on their own, reeking of vodka and filth. Charity cases are left to die. The town cop is a chronic alcoholic who terrorizes the populace. The postmaster opens all the mail and pockets the letters that amuse him. As for the mayor, he is an embezzler who never forgets a good bribe...
John R. Marquand, assistant dean of the College, Harry W. Orf, senior tutor of Mather House, and Paul A. Walters, assistant director and chief of the mental health service, are serving as Faculty sponsors to SHS providing guidance and assistance...
...delusions of a glorious future. Says a psychologist: "We have illiterate seven-year-olds who say they are going to be doctors." At a São Paulo orphanage, the IQ of the youngsters ranges between 50 and 70; in the U.S., people with such scores are classified as mentally retarded. Says Irna Marilia Kaden, director of Rio's child welfare agency: "A person with psychological disorders and mental impairment, a sick person-a sick, fragile population-cannot act as an agent of development. And what's worse, he is a dead weight to be sustained by those...