Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world no longer throws its mentally sick into snake pits, on the theory, once widely held, that an experience which might drive a sane person out of his mind might drive an insane one back into it. But snake pits still exist. The Shame of the States, a recently published, chillingly factual report on conditions in state mental hospitals (see MEDICINE), reveals horrors in the midst of the world's wealthiest, healthiest country which many Americans may refuse to believe. The large, hidden population of the mentally ill lives amid squalor, dirt and creeping fear, in the solitary confinement...
...Story. The Snake Pit is the story of Virginia Cunningham (Miss de Havilland) who loses her mind, spends about a year in a state institution, and is released as cured. In the novel, the heroine's illness and its treatment remained undefined. Dramatically compressing the somewhat rambling original story, Scriptwriters Millen (The Outward Room) Brand and Frank Partos added a brand-new doctor and gave the heroine a brand-new case history...
...picture's greatest merit is its memorable types: the inarticulate young girl whose frozen, dangerous fear seems to choke her like a stone lodged in the throat; the nurse whose own mind has worked loose in the buffeting, jarring atmosphere of the asylum and who now wanders through her ward, forlornly keeping imaginary records...
Such changes were unlikely to be enough: the Mirror was still printing too little news, and too many women's features. Its pictures were still mediocre. The Chandlers had still not found the special technique and the excited state of mind that tabloid journalism requires...
...solider than in 1946 or 1947. Historical novels still dominated the bestseller lists most of the year, but serious fiction, especially war novels, was giving them a run for their money. As the summer drew to a close, the late Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman's Peace of Mind, after months of leadership, had been replaced by Dale Carnegie's more practical guide to the same end, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. Even so, a surprising number of better books had climbed up among the top moneymakers...