Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearly two-thirds of all state and federal prisoners live in facilities that are considered overcrowded. That is, they afford each prisoner less than 60 sq. ft. of living space; the American Medical Association and the American Public Health Association consider that to be a minimum standard if serious mental and physical problems are 1 to be avoided. Conditions in the nation's city and county jails are even worse; another federal study says that 80% of the inmates in these institutions have less than the minimum space...
...course of speaking with these officials, I learned that a student had committed suicide two weeks before in Stillman infirmary, and that the administration was taking great pains to keep it quiet, I wonder now how many suicides the University has hidden--and why? Is the issue of mental health an embarrassment--do suicide attempts stain fair Harvard's reputation...
...make it home. To embrace them now may be a complicated, belated and awkward exercise, but it should be done-done with a clear historical eye, without pity or jingo or other illusions. It would mitigate an injustice and might even improve the nation's collective mental health. It would help to settle America's tedious quarrel with itself. Americans should be able to repeat Robert Lowell's line in a calm inward murmur: "My eyes have seen what my hand...
...those people who have remained, a few show signs of delayed stress, which Therapist David Hawkins of the Lower Columbia Mental Health Center refers to as "the Mount St. Helens syndrome." Many acknowledge that the eruption produced heavy emotional fallout. "It was a kind of religious experience for many people," said one sidewalk philosopher. "A lot of people living together thought maybe there is a God and then went out and got married. When it passed, they got divorced." Some people grew cautious or suspicious. Grocer Greg Drew and some of his friends have bought radio scanners so they...
Raymond Matzker, the $42,000-a-year director of a Wisconsin mental health institute, was not so fortunate. He lost his job last January after it was discovered that he had taken the name, Social Security number and educational background of a college acquaintance. One job candidate got in trouble because of the bad judgment used by an executive placement firm he hired. A cover letter that accompanied the resume of Dennis C. Revell claimed that he "is a litigator who makes an excellent presentation and is engaged to be married to President Reagan's daughter Maureen." Although...