Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Psychiatrist Gaylord P. Coon stated that the University psychiatrists had been in touch with very few of the students who had commited suicide over the years. "Students liable to commit suicide don't usually ask for help from the psychiatrist, but bear the burden themselves," he said. Psychiatrists and psychologists agree that "there is no clear-cut mental illness that leads to suicide...
...loan plan will be looked into at greater length at our next meeting," said Harris. "It hasn't been studied enough yet, and the Deans won't want to commit themselves," he added. Dean Bender could not be reached for comment last night...
France, which should have four divisions in the NATO line, has siphoned off 2½ for the fighting in Algeria. Far from being apologetic. French Chief of Staff General Paul Ely last week demanded that NATO commit itself to the defense of all French territories in Africa. "Upon pain of death," declared General Ely, NATO must develop a "peripheral strategy" to prevent the U.S.S.R. from subverting Africa and thereby turning NATO's Mediterranean flank...
...cause of suicide is too much reason. Animals, as you know, do not commit suicide...
...only recent playwright whose treatment of a stylish professional world, by comparison with The Man Who Came to Dinner, for example, seems raspingly lacking in style. Once More, With Feeling has none of the stealthy purr-and-scratch of music-world wit; rascals are roughnecks, megalomaniacs commit mayhem, bull fiddles see red. There is not a touch of urbane caricature, it is all plebeian cartooning; and even on its own would be broad popular terms, the play has no real Broadway bounce...