Word: sanitarium
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...makes love "with rather cold passion, to one of three similarly disposed married women." And he can be as fast with the vodka martinis as with his Beretta .25; in the opening pages of Thunderball, he was in such bad shape that M had to send him to a sanitarium for a couple of weeks...
...Zelda's decline from the brittlely gay young madcap who could bathe in the Plaza fountain at midnight to the hopeless schizophrenic that she became. As Fitzgerald put it in his notebook: "I left my capacity for hoping on the little roads that led to Zelda's sanitarium." By the '30s, Fitzgerald had lost his early conviction that "life was something you dominated if you were any good." He drowned himself in gin, lamenting "I haven't been able to enjoy myself. I would like a blank period...
...news-at first-comes in light voices that in their humor are vintage De Vries: "Here you have the bronchi at the point where they empty into the diatribe," his Old World doctor says by way of telling him he has tuberculosis. He leaves the tuberculosis sanitarium to visit his father, now ensconced in an asylum where the carefree staff has diagnosed him a "Nervous Wreck." Horrified, Don packs his father off to a country rest home where he is amazed to meet his old fiancée. He accepts guilt for her troubled mind, and, in the face...
Madness takes its final hold on Wanderhope's wife, and she kills herself after "six months in a sanitarium under the care of a psychiatrist who could do no more than apply a poultice of polysyllables to a wound he could neither see nor understand." Wanderhope is left with a daughter who is herself condemned to die of leukemia at twelve. During the ordeal of visits to the hospital as she lies dying, he turns back to take some measure of the faith lost at his brother's deathbed...
...Quarry, by Friedrich Duerrenmatt. A sick old detective trapped in a sanitarium run by an archsadist-each of them the other's quarry-provides the author with a new set of grotesque mouthpieces for his macabre view of life...