It made her tough and she was used to an institutionalised life.
He also says he read Solzhenitsyn, Kundera and other Soviet bloc dissidents at school and, perhaps (this is my speculation, not his), an unhappy adolescent soul sensed parallels between totalitarian socialism and the communal, institutionalised life of boarding schools.
Finally, in the last few pages of the book, comes Dittrich's denouement, explaining his subtitle: the strong, scandalous hint that his grandmother, who had spent much of her life institutionalised, was also lobotomised by her husband Scoville, prior to his divorcing her and marrying a much younger woman.
Her mother, Gertrude, never recovered from the loss and was institutionalised for the rest of her life.
A study nurse conducted telephone interviews with the patients or with their caregivers after 1 and 2.5 years to determine the patients' situations (i.e. whether they were living at home, institutionalised, or deceased) and to record their health-related quality of life (EQ-5D).
Life here is not particularly institutionalised.
"Then in 1889 in Saint-Rémy [in southern France where Van Gogh institutionalised himself at the end of his life] he picks that up again – except this time producing colourful paintings.
He continued to support institutionalised Unitarianism for the rest of his life, writing several Defenses of Unitarianism and encouraging the foundation of new Unitarian chapels throughout Britain and the United States.
Paul Viragh, the screenwriter, shuffles flashbacks into the story of his rise to fame, and inevitably sees the musician's disability – he was crippled with polio and institutionalised from childhood – as a determining factor of his life: while he avoided self-pity, he seemed to regard his condition as a free pass to behave like a boor and a yob.
The four suits can also be read as symbols of society and human energy: clubs representing both the peasantry and achievement through work; diamonds, the merchant class and the excitement of wealth creation; hearts, the clergy and the struggle to achieve inner joy; spades, the warrior class institutionalised into the nobility and the fractious problems of life.
Devote those precious early years to the acquisition and maintenance of the vital life skills which are undermined by the current system: curiosity, creativity, motivation, perseverance... Oddy, Pat Yes but please show as much energy in tackling institutionalised car culture as you do institutionalised racism and sexism.
