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Despite the quickening progress in the medical, educational and legal aspects of retardation, it would be illusory to think that any major victory over this age-old affliction has been won. The sophisticated diagnostic and training techniques that seem so promising are available to only a small minority of those who need them. The National Association for Retarded Children estimates that at least half the nation's mentally backward youngsters receive no schooling at all. Among adult victims, a large majority have the capacity for useful work; employers generally find them to be steady and reliable. But the necessary...
...phobias known to behavioral scientists are relatively rare afflictions. There are, for example, only a few victims of erythrophobia (the fear of blushing) and fewer yet of melissophobia (fear of bees) or panto-phobia (fear of everything). But Princeton University Philosopher Walter Kaufmann says that there is one age-old but hitherto unrecognized fear that is nearly universal. It is "decidophobia" -the morbid dread of making fateful decisions...
...Great men whisper whispers while a stunned capitol awaits. Even the cherry blossoms along the Potomac seem to sense the magnitude. And magnitude there is. Yet magnitude there has been before, and the nation has survived. A mood of cautious optimism surged forward just at dusk. Then set the age-old sun behind these edifices of reason, and gloom once more descended. Yet gloom there has been, and in the end the nation has survived...Still, in this worried capitol tonight, men watch and men wait. So too do women and children in this worried capitol tonight watch and wait...
...daughter of Ezra Pound, for the woman who lived the life of a peasant foundling before discovering a larger world of harsher realities, it is not pretentious but compelling and revelatory to write of age-old plots being played out in the 20th century but "Somewhere between Mamme and Tatte's world on earth and God in Heaven there was an island of demigods not ruled by human laws. Here the range of imagination was wider, feelings more passionate and ruthless....Every myth I came to know, I believed in, and lived through, giving it new twists...
After an uneasy half-century under this arrangement, the age-old religious hatred, social injustice and tribal attitudes persist, making future peace a questionable prospect. In 1615 Barnaby Rich wrote in his Anatomy of Ireland: "The diseases of Ireland are many, and the sickness is grown to that of a contagion that is almost past cure." His admonition, sadly, is still relevant...