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...repressed hostility, commit her to the care of a therapist whose attempts to reach Janice are thwarted by his dismissal from the hospital. Wednesday's Child strains credulity here. The doctor's reasonable, low-key therapy sessions hardly seem radical enough to get him dismissed even from Bedlam. Janice, submitted to electric shock and heavy drugs, retreats ever deeper into her dark private world, until at film's end, standing lost and mute, she faces a class full of bored medical students. It is clear that Director Ken Loach (Kes) and Scenarist David Mercer (Morgan) intend their...
...brought air travel to a temporary halt in more than 30 countries last week. In Europe, the strike was 75% effective. Swissair pilots, legally barred from taking part, were given permission by a cooperative airline management to join the protest. Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport, ordinarily uncontrolled bedlam, looked almost like a normal air terminal with 91 of 131 scheduled flights canceled...
...present; only travel-stained faces stare back. Then hell erupts. In an Israeli airport, from a French plane, Japanese terrorists gun down Puerto Rican pilgrims (see THE WORLD). The mind is dizzied, repelled-and outraged. We were never promised a rose garden, but neither were we threatened with bedlam...
...Bedlam Approach. Because most environmentally retarded children develop physically at a normal rate, parents often fail to realize that the youngsters' minds are not keeping pace. Compensatory programs must be started early if they are to be effective. But most children of this type are not diagnosed until they have entered school, and many schools are inadequately equipped to deal with them. As a result, the child not only fails to catch up, but is likely to fall further and further behind those of his age. If he becomes mentally disturbed as well...
Most parents and specialists now realize that the typical large state-run custodial institution must be regarded as the very last resort. Even in states that have relatively progressive policies toward the treatment of retardation, such facilities are Hogarthian reflections of a Bedlam approach to the problem. They are chronically short of funds and personnel, do little to train the more seriously afflicted and can rarely maintain even minimal standards of hygiene. One example is New York's Willowbrook State School on Staten Island, where a cutback in state appropriations recently caused conditions to deteriorate to the crisis point...