...hospital as a clerk. But in addition to the lack of high-tech security -- the place has changed little since poet Ezra Pound was institutionalized here during the 1940s and '50s -- all too often it seems that patients are given the benefit...

...because it was a crude, retrograde celebration. Something to satisfy the crowd. It reminds me of what (American poet) Ezra Pound once wrote, that he was born in a half-savage country. That's what we are." A disturbing thought, but not terribly...