Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most take all of this quite seriously because of personal convictions that they have a duty to their country to become officers. A few want commissions in the regular Army. Some are members of the unit simply because they would rather serve their two years in the Army as officers than as enlisted men. Whatever his reason for joining, each cadet attempts to get decent marks...
Basic plans for the new units were roughed out on the living-room floor of Child Psychiatrist Ralph D. Rabinovitch and his psychiatrist-wife Sara Dubo. (They have since resigned, will leave after the unit is in full operation.) In the planning, their first premise was that a mentally ill child has suffered a lack of something vital in his home life. It would only make things worse to keep him in an old-fashioned institution. So, despite all the precautions needed for damage control, they stressed what Dr. Waggoner calls the positive, made the atmosphere in the unit...
Average stay in the new unit is expected to be eight months. Average cost: $6,000 (although most patients are treated free). The hospital does not turn down even the toughest cases. It has taken in firebugs and killers (one boy who had killed his parents was admitted for diagnosis), helped them find useful lives in the world...
...World War II left Benny-and the other big jazz bands-far behind. The standard unit became the combo (three to eight musicians) and the music they played took off into outer space of cold, interstellar atonalities. Benny Goodman spent more and more time at his place in Connecticut, listening to his classical records...
...Kulle), obviously patterned on O'Neill himself, is a consumptive. These four haunted characters spend their long day's journey into night gnawing at each other. They sit around the living room table drinking, talking, baring their minds, hating each other, yet cemented together in one miserable unit of family love which survives all the bitterness and pain...