Word: sicklying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sight . . . What had happened at St. Lawrence was a dramatic and belated revival of what is essentially an ancient idea: the mentally ill are sick, but still people, and they must be treated as people, if they are ever to return to society. For several centuries B.C., some Greek temples were maintained as retreats, where the emotionally disturbed could recover in a calm and restful atmosphere ("milieu therapy" in the jargon of today's psychiatry...
...Sick Society. Only an insignificant number of patients were disturbed enough to justify a fraction of these precautions. It was society itself that was insecure and full of irrational fears of what the mentally ill might...
...cannot be measured in terms of iron bars and canvas straps alone. They derive much more importantly from the attitudes of people around the patient. For too long, as Maxwell Jones puts it, we worked on the unconscious belief that 'the role of the patient is to be sick.' If he senses that we expect him to be suicidal, or try to get away, or to be violent, he will oblige us. The open door is a symbol of our new-found belief that we expect patients to get better. It is only a symbol...
Tomorrow Boston voters will elect a new mayor for a city that is sick. Patronage pressures have expanded the city payroll to extravagant size, boosting the city budget. The incredibly high real estate tax--now $101.20 per $1000 assessed--has discouraged new building and driven some long established business to other cities. As they leave the tax base shrinks, and the city is forced to increase the tax rate for those who remain. And Boston faces other, secondary problems too: public transportation, inadequate parking, the "abatement racket," and juvenile delinquency, to name just a few. As the suburbs enjoy booms...
...Pather Panchali, director Satyijit Ray has recorded certain portions of the life of an Indian family over a ten year period, describing the interaction of the five important characters: the mother and father, a daughter, a young son, and an old sick aunt. Shortly after the beginning of the film, Apu, the son, becomes a central figure, the viewer of the action, the mute commentator. The first we see of him is an eye, which his sister opens with her fingers; and his eye follows the action for the rest of the film, peering over stone walls, looking out from...