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Alcohol made living on the edge possible for Musselman, who said he used the "legal drug" as a crutch...
...idea of a liberal education rejects this deep cynicism and loss of faith in the self. As Wynton Marsalis once commented on his philosophy of music: "Everybody has two heritages, ethnic and human. The human aspects give art its real enduring power... The racial aspect, that's a crutch so you don't have to go out into the world...
...criticisms that her office is incapable of performing an adequate investigation of the unit. An earlier investigation--performed last spring by then-General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54--failed to interview guards, and University Attorney Frank J. Connors this fall accused security guards of using charges of discrimination as a crutch...
...YEARS AUDIENCES HAVE CRIED AT THE SIGHT OF the undersized lad bearing a single crutch who rides atop his father's shoulder. But Charles Dickens never revealed just what is wrong with Tiny Tim Cratchit, whose life is in chronic peril each Christmas. American pediatric neurologist Donald Lewis apparently couldn't take it anymore. After examining the literature, literally, on Tim, Dr. Lewis has come up with a professional diagnosis: distal renal tubular acidosis. According to A Christmas Carol, Tiny Tim lives to enjoy Christmases Yet to Come, thanks to a reformed Scrooge and his trio of conscience-raising phantoms...
...play's relation to Shakespeare's original has been distorted beyond recognition. The program unsuccessfully attempts to link the two plays through Brecht's obscure interpretation of the original. Hamlet provides an indisposable framework, a crutch for an otherwise weak extrapolation of it. In short, Hamletmaschine ends up a purposeless desecration of Shakespeare's masterpiece, and is successful only through a familiar title and a talented interpretation by the cast...