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Although the thought of Johnny Rotten writing the next Catcher in the Rye seems weird, Portman is punk's best-educated tone-deaf singer. An excellent student at Berkeley, he deferred a Ph.D. program in history at Harvard to play in a Bay Area punk band. Not only that, but he knew the teen genre because in high school he worked as a children's librarian, and as part of the job he downed all the young-adult classics. The Mr. T Experience's teen anthems were surprisingly literary: a breakup song, Checkers Speech, is based on Nixon's television...
...week later, the UC organized a protest with students groups outside the Nov. 14 Faculty meeting, which earned them a meeting with Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles. The initiative ultimately fell short, but it represented a step beyond the perfunctory position paper, which often falls on deaf ears. More steps like this need to be taken. The UC could make much more extensive use of petitions, op-eds, or discussion forums to draw attention to advocacy issues. If position papers are met with indifference, as they so often are, then the UC needs a bolder and more diversified...
...autism "connection." It is unfortunate that precious time, energy and money have been wasted on such a warped theory. I am autistic myself, and I am very certain there is more to the autism epidemic than genetics, TV or even the weather. The medical community unfortunately is deaf to commentary from those with autism and gives too much credence to so-called studies like the one from Cornell University. Jagannath Chatterjee Orissa, India...
...practice of managing “lunacy” toward the end of the Middle Ages, creating asylums for those whose behavior was deemed abnormal. With little scientific understanding of mental illness, “lunatic” was a broadly defined label that too frequently included the deaf, the mute, and the intellectually slow. “Treatment” meant squalid living conditions and physical abuse. Beginning in the 18th century, some steps were taken to make treatment of the mentally ill more “humane,” but well into the 20th century these people...
...heartfelt, short and set to a stirring soft-rock melody that sticks in the mind like white to rice. That's Tomlin's gift: immediacy. "I try to think, How do I craft this song in a way that the person who's tone-deaf and can't clap on two and four can sing it?" says the songwriter. "I hope that when someone hears a CD of mine, they pick up their guitar and say, 'O.K., I can do that.'" Which is not the way people react to, say, Handel's Messiah...