Word: hand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Considering the care required by the children, the settlements were hardly generous. Richard can walk, run and climb stairs. He can write well with his foot-but not with his artificial right hand. He cannot wash or dress himself, go to the toilet alone or brush his hair. Although he is in school and has an IQ of 124, it is doubtful that he can go on to a university. David is immobile, except for rocking movements, and probably will be unemployable all his life...
...Somebody," George Bernard Shaw once said, "must take the Garden of Eden in hand and weed it properly." Obviously, the man that Shaw had in mind for the job was himself. In Back to Methuselah, his five-play cycle completed in 1921, he tried to settle once and for all the meaning of creation ac cording to the Shavian doctrine of creative evolution. Written when he was 65 and for once heedless of commercial practicalities, the drama is frankly intended as his philosophical summa. Unfortunately, as a new London production by Britain's National Theater makes clear...
...portrait of his friend, Monsignor James Turner, however, that Eakins brought his fullest powers. From the thoughtful, chin-in-hand pose and the bookish sophistication of the pincenez to the compassion, intelligence and ever-so-subtle weakness spelled in the cleric's features, Eakins crystallized the peculiar humanity of the dedicated priest -and vindicated his own lonely, stubborn loyalty to life...
...Good. The two dozen recruit novelists who signed up for the project-including Newsday Editor Bill McIlwain -plunged in. Less than three weeks later, with 15 chapters in hand, McGrady issued a stern warning against inconsistencies: "Four chapters have described Gillian's body in terms of alabaster," he noted. "Two have insisted she is heavily tanned. For future reference: she will be lightly tanned during the summer months; the word alabaster will be appropriate beginning midway through the month of November." The real problem, however, was in the quality of the writing. "Everybody has the feeling they can write...
...instruments have gotten out of hand...