Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Robert Lowell, 60, Pulitzer prizewinning poet whose introspective verse bared his own tortured confrontations with religion, mental illness and domestic problems; of an apparent heart attack; while en route by taxi from Kennedy International Airport to Manhattan (see BOOKS...
...outwardly tempestuous life as well. He was a Roman Catholic convert in his 20s-he later renounced the church -and a conscientious objector who served five months in prison for draft resistance during World War II. In his later years, he suffered from manic-depression and was often in mental institutions. He had three wives, all writers: Novelist Jean Stafford, Critic Elizabeth Hardwick and English Novelist Lady Caroline Blackwood. The Byronic drama of his marriages made its way into Lowell's poetry, where he quoted his wives' letters and reproaches, chronicled his infidelities and begged forgiveness...
...mental hospital in which Debby learns to deal with her schizophrenia is more believable. Like Green, Page manages to balance the harsh methods used to control the inmates--a sadistic orderly, and prolonged wrapping in cold sheets to quiet hysteria--with the compassion shown by Debby's psychiatrist (Bibi Andersson) and the kindness shown by nurses and Debby's intimate friends. Yet this rather sympathetic portrayal could lead one to think that the insane are cured by kind words and firm control. Once again, Page's superficial treatment destroys the story: Debby's psychoanalysis seems suspiciously easy as the psychiatrist...
...film syndrome. Stroszek is an aimless film about aimless people, society's losers who spend their lives groping for a promised dream that goes unfulfilled. Set in the slums of Berlin. Stroszek begins on a note of hope as the film's protagonist gains his release from a local mental institution. Played by a German actor going under the nom de theatre of Bruno S., the Stroszek character quickly becomes an awkward and self-conscious symbol of the social orphan. Herzog sketches the despair and alienation of the vagrant with an unflinching vengeance...
...case seems to be all too typical in Philadelphia. Police have also been accused of severely beating a black gas-station owner, a white college student and a British musician. In July, a cop with a previous record of assault shot and killed José Reyes, 28, a former mental patient, in the doorway of his home. The police say he was threatening the cop, but a witness told TIME Correspondent James Willwerth that Reyes had stumbled and "was goin' in the house on all fours" when the policeman, .standing over him, fired twice. The episode inflamed Reyes...