Word: classing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NIGHTINGALE SANG (PBS, Oct. 15, 9 p.m. on most stations). Joan Plowright plays the matriarch of a working-class British family during World War II in this adaptation of C.P. Taylor's play, which launches a new season for Masterpiece Theater...
This much acclaimed drama focuses on a middle-class family in which one of the three children, Corky, 18, is suffering from Down syndrome. The show is a breakthrough because it stars a youngster, Chris Burke, who has the disorder. Though he has a relatively mild case of retardation, Burke's very presence on screen is eloquent proof that such children can be capable, functioning members of society...
...could be embarrassed by this wonderful kid? In the opening episode Corky enters a "mainstream" high school for the first time. By the second episode he is running for class president. True, the campaign is launched as a joke by cruel classmates, but Corky turns it into a rousing, and rather implausible, plea for the handicapped. "We have a life, we have dreams, we have hopes," runs his big speech at a school assembly. "We laugh and cry, just like you. All we want is a chance to be your friend." Result: a standing ovation and a narrow loss...
...inherent fault with such scare tactics, says David C. Evans, Georgia's commissioner of corrections, is expecting too much from them. Says he: "Too many middle-class whites see it as the answer, a panacea." But with minimal counseling or after-shock guidance, the boot-camp experience "is just a car wash for criminals who are supposed to be cleansed for life," says Pat Gilliard, executive director of the Clearinghouse on Georgia Prisons and Jails. Edward J. Loughran, commissioner of the department of youth services in Massachusetts, dismisses the whole idea of shock therapy because "you cannot undo...
...could improve their game," Kramer recalls. Word about Braden's magic touch spread; soon people were signing up as much as two years in advance for his half-hour individual lessons, which usually drew an appreciative nonpaying audience of local toads. He also took time to organize a class of blind children, calling out numbers to help them aim their racquets at machine-propelled balls. "Golly," says Braden, "when the kids hit the ball, I was more thrilled than they were." It was at Rolling Hills Estates, too, that he trained Tracy Austin and other young proteges...