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Following Stevie around, one almost forgets his blindness. He spends hours watching television, going to the movies or shopping for clothes. During all of these moments, he has a companion to narrate the action or describe the lapels. He is a telephone addict, and his phone directory is a cassette on which he narrates to himself all the numbers that he regularly dials. If he could acquire sight, he is regularly asked, what would he want to see? And he regularly replies: The world, the earth, the birds, the grass and the people he loves. "But there...
...knit repertory troupe-18 actors, musicians and playwrights-who, in addition to touring prisons, are currently staging an off-Broadway hit, Short Eyes, at Joseph Papp's New York Public Theater. A year ago, most of them were inmates in New York prisons. Kenny Steward, 32, ex-drug addict, spent 16 years in and out of jail cells as he progressed from parking-meter pilfering to armed robbery. Tito Goya, 22, The Family's composer, scaled his way through prison and music simultaneously. At 17 in Comstock, he learned piano and guitar; in two years at Auburn...
...although Matthews might better have said a horror of sex, since, as the book points out in another connection, there were perhaps more women than men among the very few people with whom Eliot had close friendships. No, his sickly and neurotic first wife Vivienne was not a drug addict, although she was more or less constantly on medication...
...ambiguous present too, and hidden in the shadows, he took his small pleasures, a little worried about becoming addicted to them, but already realizing he was an addict to something else. He stayed confused by all his talented classmates, happy to be a statistic in the dialectic, not quite sure what it meant, satisfied to be part of it: it sounded progressive...
...cover for our inactivity. The press uses heroism to mean sensationalism, grandstanding. Real heroism lies in the courage of everyday life which some people find to rebuild this world despite the obstacles. Though no paper covered it, the heroism in the woman's response to the addict is the only cure to the fear in the younger girl's face...