Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator Ward said, "There are probably 500 citizens held illegally at Bridge-water and more get committed there every year." (See page 3 for a detailed discussion of the proposed code...
...Before this 1968 legislative year is over, there will be a new statute in reference to the commitment procedures," Senator Joseph D. Ward (D-Fitchburg), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told a group from the Massachusetts Association for Mental Health yesterday...
...psychiatrist, he "eloped" from one Washington, D.C., hospital at least three times to be with cars - cars that each time he stole and drove all over the country. In 1965, he was picked up for stealing yet another car. Gerald entered an insanity defense and was acquitted. Immediately after ward he was sent to a hospital for the in sane - as is anyone, in most U.S. courts, who successfully pleads insanity...
...which purports to relate the naked, ribald truth about Pocahontas and John Smith. Fiedler also singles out Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, in which a white man and an Indian struggle against being lobotomized (read "castrated") by Big Nurse in a psycho ward. In these contemporary works the spirit of the Vanishing American returns, enabling the authors to debunk traditional notions of how the West was won. This debunking criticizes contemporary values, and that, suggests Fiedler, is also the aim of the hippie...
...Russia, Valeriy Tarsis mercilessly unstitched the britches of Soviet Communism-and let the whole world watch them come down. For slipping the book out of the country and having it published abroad, Tarsis was sent to the loony bin. After six months he was released and in 1965 came Ward 7 (also shipped out and published abroad), in which Tarsis made it clear that only in a madhouse can a Russian speak his mind. This time he was allowed to leave Russia. But while he was on a lecture tour in England, his Russian citizenship was taken away. He became...