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...cases, the infants thrive in that controlled, constricted environment, designed to give them the best chance to live. But most do not make it. They spend their brief existence in a sterile world, devoid of any real warmth or affection, a world filled with pain and discomfort. In my own view, the odds just were not worth it. I found it impossible to confront the vision of my child dying alone in a room full of machines-never having known what it is to be loved...
...them a secondary role outside society. Behind their praise for "courage" and "achievements" is the message that when we do break into mainstream society we are only there because of some superior personal qualities, not because that is our rightful place as human beings. Attitudinal barriers often stem from discomfort and fear, and create a barrier for which there is no ready solution. Underneath them is a wish to avoid contact with people with disabilities, perhaps out of fear of confronting one's own mortality, as some people posit, of "there but for fortune go I." Attitudinal barriers can only...
...HEARS A LOT these days--may be one always has--about the mild psychological disorder, the discomfort with atavistic overtones, referred to as Jewish guilt Saddled with the stereotypes of the Jewish Mother and the Jewish American Princess. Jews in America are almost expected to feel ambivalent about their heritage. On the one hand, there is the insecurity of knowing what happened to one's roots in Poland or Russia or Germany. On the other is the desire to take full advantage of a wondrous new world--thus breaking the last link in an ancestral chain--to produce the strange...
...National League was deficient (seven for him, five against), and that was that. Although the American League liked him well enough, 11 to 3, his re-election for a third seven-year term was scotched. Said Kuhn: "I think as much as anything else there is some discomfort now with a commissioner who has disciplinary powers over the people who employ...
...back to us, intently watching his younger self (Lorcan O'Neill) on a larger video screen. Having something to look at is a terrific relief; it just may be what turns the balance in this production from a potentially crushing, stupefying effect to one of satisfying and thought-provoking discomfort...