Word: mentally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pound, who was charged with treason during the last war, was not brought to trial because he was found insane. Now 73, he has been living in Italy since his release from a Washington, D.C., mental institution last year...
...this reason that Curley had constantly to carry on diversionary actions. They were like his planted hecklers and the stickers, "Vote for Curley: a Humble Man," pasted onto the pretentious posters of an opponent. Curley had no extensive scheme, mental or political, with which to becloud events. With him it was a day to day activity. That is why he was so dependent on patronage powers, and his influence faded so quickly when he went to Washington...
...Mental patients notwithstanding, it is agreed--from University Police Captain Matthew J. Toohy to House janitors--that "Harvard is a very peaceful place, the students are all very loyal to each other." The average student's worst enemy seems to be himself. Suicide is the most frequent major crime...
...psychiatrists had been in touch with very few of the students who had commited suicide over the years. "Students liable to commit suicide don't usually ask for help from the psychiatrist, but bear the burden themselves," he said. Psychiatrists and psychologists agree that "there is no clear-cut mental illness that leads to suicide...
Home Before Dark. A soapy but intelligently done story about a wife (Jean Simmons) returning home after a year in a mental hospital; with a brilliant job by Dan O'Herlihy as her husband...