Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Milwaukee, for example, she worked on a series of investigative reports examining "the in-justices and outright collusion of the city's power structure that were 'dumping' the mentally ill into run-down boarding homes." Sometimes social workers would send these people, barefoot in bathrobes, from nursing homes or mental health centers, because of some economic mandate from the state bureaucracy to lower health costs...
...story opens, things do not look bright for May Alto. Harry, a second husband with the boyish charm and mental age of a 14-year-old, has just left her for "...this girl." Subsisting on codeine and Seconal, she is nursing an arm slashed in a mugging for $12 and a cheap tape recorder. She is the sole supporter of three children going through various phases of adolescent trauma. A ghostwriter, May writes books to order, bringing glory to a slew of semi-literate literary celebrities in return for modest cash rewards. To keep herself entertained, she intertwines the stories...
Both saw Literary grist in the Waugh-like war in Grenada. Naipaul, says his London agent, came "to take some mental pictures." Thompson, says his New York editor, was after "a Hunter piece." The anecdotes are as lush as the Grenadian jungle. Staying at a nearby hotel is a CIA man who lives like a bat, eating beans and canned Dinty Moore stew and going out only at night. Then there is Morgan, the inmate at the bombed-out mental hospital, who turned up one evening playing piano at the Red Crab. Because of his light complexion, he was taken...
...computer makes easier the process of writing, but doesn't help with the skill of writing," Marius said, while emphasizing the experimental aspect of the section. "The computer eliminates so much of the physical labor and allows far more mental labor," he added...
Thursday, December 1: Harvard officers were called to Quincy Street to assist a security guard in restraining a disturbed and violent man. The subject was clamed by the officers and transported to the Cambridge City Hospital's mental clinic for observation...