Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Melun ruled that the Trognons could not bestow their name on their three-year-old foster son Philippe. The court did not object to the couple but only to their surname, which means stump or butt end. A name like that, said Chief Judge Maurice Rousseau, would be "un handicap" that would make poor Philippe "a butt of jokes" for the rest of his life...
...weeks. France-Soir, the nation's largest daily, condemned the court decision as "inconceivable." Le Monde sagely reminded the judges that once upon a time schoolboys had made fun of the first name of a little Corsican named Bonaparte. He did not seem to find it un handicap...
...father of modern chess, suffered from a delusion in his later years that he could place a telephone call without wire or receiver, as well as move chess pieces at will by emitting electrical currents. He also claimed to be in touch with God, whom he offered a pawn handicap and the first move in a showdown chess match. He died a charity patient...
...plush San Francisco suburb, where Mom smothered him with heaping portions of maternal concern. A guitarist and songwriter, he is anxious to make it on his own, maybe put together a nightclub act. Everyone is impressed with his songs and with his matter-of-fact courage about his handicap. "You're a beautiful person, inside and out," gushes the girl next door, who rapidly graduates to roommate status...
Despite this considerable handicap, the Loeb production is a powerful rendition of an immensely powerful play...