Word: sanatorium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hothouse Flush. He takes to visiting her at the sanatorium, generously pays for her treatment and embarks on projects to prepare her for the outside world she must face when she is cured. He teaches her French because her only knack seems to be a gift for languages, brings her albums of great paintings, tries to broaden her knowledge of the world. But Aladar is the pupil, not Lalla. He meets two of her fellow patients-strangely charming Franciska, gently maternal Kati. He dotes on the three girls like a fond parent, becomes absorbed in the hothouse flush...
...limit upon the length of therapy is also a matter of policy. It is felt that "the college is not a Sanatorium" and that a college psychiatric program should emphasize the removal of blocks to learning. Also, Dr. Farnsworth and others feel that a college psychiatric service, if it is to serve the student properly in the future, must keep some time in reserve for research, for talks with members of the community interested in psychological and mental health problems, and the relation of psychiatric insights to education...
...ready-made railroad tunnels (for the Southern Railway in Virginia), chicken pens with below hen-killing summer temperatures, cesspools for at least five Pennsylvania towns, factories for moonshiners and counterfeiters, prisons (Marvel Cave, Mo.), natural air conditioning for surface buildings. Kentucky's Mammoth even served as a TB sanatorium for a time in the 1840s (one patient died; the others got sicker...
...they are asked to believe that this is a good thing for them and for the country. And they are told that the President's health would improve in the White House more than if he became a private citizen. The White House was not planned as a sanatorium or a nursing home...
Dazed & Damaged. The camera moved swiftly on for glimpses of drunken sots on Skid Row and a clinical study of alcoholics in Connecticut's Blue Hills sanatorium, ranging from the treatment of violent arrivals through the slow repairing of the dazed and damaged to the faintly hopeful prognosis of alcoholics about to be released. The most pitiful shots were morning-after scenes in a Philadelphia Magistrates' Court, where the drunk and disorderly were up for sentencing; the most unnerving came when, back in Moriarty's bar, Announcer Grauer hoisted his highball glass and took a final swig...