Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student may feel that the multiversity has become too big and impersonal and may not always be prepared to study a subject in the sequences and hierarchies organized by the sub-departments, and may find that helping a slum Negro youngster learn English or sitting with an abandoned patient in a mental hospital provides a feeling of personal relation and responsibility lacking in the curriculum. The Peace Corps or civil rights activity may provide similar compensation. Of course this is only a small minority of students, just as only a small minority resist the liberalizing impact of higher education...
Zulu Type. While her patient was recovering, Dr. Molthan sent blood samples to research centers around the world. From London came a suggestion: Mrs. Hutson's blood seemed to be of the Shabalala type, named for Mrs. Elizabeth Shabalala, 42, a handsome, strapping Zulu in whom the type was first detected in Johannesburg, by Dr. Maurice Shapiro, after she had had a succession of stillbirths and miscarriages. With that information on hand, Dr. Molthan and the obstetricians knew they had an extraordinary problem to cope with when Mrs. Hutson became pregnant again last spring. She might need blood during...
...Said Mrs. Shabalala, a darkroom technician in Johannesburg: "The doctor had to talk to me for a long time before I agreed to give blood-it is a procedure entirely foreign to the normal African." At Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital, Dr. Richard Rosenfield alerted a Puerto Rican patient to stand by. In Ohio, a statewide search for a prostitute known in medical annals as Pat Murphy found her free on bail in Akron. She was tapped for a pint...
...wildly desirable schizophrenic whose corruptive beauty disrupted the routine of a private sanitarium. In Director Robert Rossen's movie version of the book, she is Jean Seberg, who enjoys an unholy liaison with a young therapist-in-training, lures an inmate toward destruction, steals away with a lesbian patient, and occasionally whispers improprieties into the ears of small boys...
...secret language she has devised. It is never translated. By contrast, the lush spoken dialogue works little strain on the imagination. Lilith wants "to leave the mark of her desire on every living creature in the world." Warren Beatty, studiously guttural as the overzealous therapist who notes that his patient looks just like his mother, has difficulty explaining his dilemma to the chief psychiatrist. "Do you think she's trying to seduce you?" asks the doctor. "Um . . . you can't put it like that," mumbles Warren. The doctor puts it another way: "It isn't unknown...