Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vote is all about McMurphy's demand to see the World Series. That's the ticket. What the patients need is good, ol' American team sports. McMurphy seems largely preoccupied with trying to organize basketball games--teaching a big, supposedly deaf and dumb seven foot Indian how to stuff, for example. During the day it's sports, at night it's poker. McMurphy's real problem is that he is a child who never grew up, who believes in the therapeutic power of good team sports. Perhaps this will strike a responsive chord in most audiences. McMurphy's other chief...
...throws himself on Ratched and comes very close to strangling her. A guard knocks him out just in time, though, and he's sent off for a lobotomy. Finally the big Indian (who's really been taking "the system" for a ride all along and simply pretending to be deaf and dumb) smothers him quietly in the night...
...Smashing all the furniture in your room for firewood. (This is great for the whole body, but it won't win you any points with the B&G men or with any non-psychotic, non-deaf people in your entry...
...real, does every coming of age. In the struggle to deploy one's gifts humanely there is often no guidance or material reward, only that scent of tragedy which always attends the decision to find out the truth about oneself, whatever the cost. But we are not so tone-deaf to the classics, I hope, as to have forgotten that in tragedy there is real life of a kind we seldom see at Harvard...
With soul-saving zeal, First Baptist welcomes deaf and retarded children, as well as a surprising number of Chicago street toughs, some of whom come equipped with clubs, knives and chains that have to be wrested away from them. For small troublemakers, Vineyard keeps a paddle handy. Explains one deacon blandly: "We ram respect and discipline down their throats." And more. First Baptist insists on short hair ("cut so that it is at least one finger-width above the eyebrows"). Primness also counts at the church's elementary and high schools and at its three-year-old, unaccredited Hyles...