Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colleges in Southampton, Barcelona, Paris, Baltimore, and to Harpur College near Binghamton, where in 1952 he got a degree in social studies (B average). His pursuit of formal learning ended a year later when he was committed to Binghamton State Hospital as a schizophrenic. In a mental ward for 18 months, he wrote most of The Mind in Chains, later raised $3,500 to pay for its 1955 publication...
...Lepers. An experienced medical administrator, Dr. Hauberg swiftly disposed of mountains of tangled red tape as he converted a former male TB ward on the outskirts of Hanover into Abteilung...
...Ward 10-Deformed Limbs...
...Phil Burton trained him dramatically, put an English polish on his voice without obscuring the Welsh vitality, fed him a reading list of great books, prepared him for his try for Oxford, and directed him in all his early plays. In 1943, Richard officially became Phil Burton's ward, taking his name. Years later when Richard was told that his father was dead, he asked: "Which...
John William Ward, in The Reporter, describes the book as a latter- day "jeremiad," that first peculiarly American literary form wherein Puritan reverends took their congregations to task for real--or imagined--sinfulness. His description of this aspect of the book is particularly apt. William James defined the uneasiness that produces religious feeling as "a sense that there is something wrong about us as we naturally stand." His observation applies to nations as well, especially to one so given to jeremiads as our own. Historians, like individuals, tell and retell their stories, hoping finally to tell them right, to arrive...