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...mental defectives were auctioned off to farmers, exhibited in cages for a fee, peddled at night from town to town in the hope of losing them. Called incurable until about 1830, insanity then enjoyed a craze of "curability," claiming 90% effectiveness (one patient "recovered" 46 times, died in an asylum). A pessimistic reaction revived an old slogan, "Once insane, always insane...
...search that began in February to fill a new post announced in January has duly come to a fruitful close: tonight Phillips Brooks House reveals the identity of the first lay confessor of the Harvard community. For the first time there will be one universally recognized asylum for Freshmen or anybody else plagued by those subtle woes that are all the more obsessive because of their intangibility...
...tightly knit plot and a due sense of seriousness in your drama "The Dog" is not for you. If, on the other hand, you are attracted by a madcap romp around contemporary Europe, including Austrian (?) revolutions ("We have them every fortnight now"), a German lunatic asylum ("Everything for the leader"), and a London cabaret ("British love is the best"), by all means go to the Copley. Don't lot the fact that "The Dog" is supposed to be propaganda for rugged communism frighten you away either. The propaganda is there all right, if you want to look...
...States governed in a modern way," foamed Dr. Alfred Rosenberg's Volkischer Beobachter, "such a criminal as LaGuardia would be rendered harmless either in a lunatic asylum or in a jail...
...Erich Kosterlitz had trephined the girl as a last effort to cure her of epilepsy. Sedatives and confinement in an asylum had failed to help her. He concluded that pressure on her brain caused her condition and that he might relieve that pressure by removing pieces of skull over her right temple...