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...deepest American dilemma regarding excellence arises from the nation's very success. The U.S. has been an astonishing phenomenon- excellent among the nations of the world. But as the prophet Amos said, "Woe to them that are at ease in Zion." It is possible to have repose, or to have excellence, but only some decorative hereditary monarchs have managed to simulate both. Success has cost Americans something of their energetic desire...
Your story on alternatives to institutionalization for the aged begins and ends with quotes from two elderly people in San Francisco, who poignantly advocate adult day care centers [Jan. 18]. Unfortunately, there is no mention that both of these individuals are participants in the Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center program, one of the first day care facilities in the U.S. based in a community hospital...
...Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center...
Hadara, for example, has managed to work her way toward feelings of accommodation largely on her own?though not without professional help. Zion Ben-Eli, a young therapist in Nahariya, treated Hadara for several months after the incident. In the beginning she clammed up entirely, would not go to school, would not leave the house. She expressed herself in art. First she painted a hand, which she called the "hand of fate." It is dark green, almost black, outlined in white with watery blue streaks running along the index finger. It looks more like a bay than a hand...
...think that she had a great deal of vitality and was a person of social conscience," Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold of Harvard Hillel, who had known Gordon since she was a child, said. "She was a very hopeful person," he added...