Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...achievement is remarkable: the Germans are now producing the most original films outside America. Their very lack of experience, otherwise a handicap, is a spur to creativity. They are ignorant of what they are not supposed to do, and they look at movies with the same fresh and vigorous eyes that the pioneers did 50 and 60 years...
...Grapelli had just begun to make a name for himself as a solo musician. Django was already famous throughout Europe. A gypsy by birth, Django was the first great jazz guitarist. He revolutionized guitar technique. He had lost two left-hand fingers early in his life. This handicap led him to invent new ways of playing and resulted in new sounds, new progressions, and new rhythms. Grapelli's swinging, raggy violin worked well with Reinhardt's rhythmic guitar style. The two were a smash hit throughout Europe. They played Le Hot Club together for years before either of them came...
...otherwise qualified handicapped individual in the United States ... shall, solely by reason of his handicap, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance...
Common sense and moderation are also required on the part of the Government officials charged with making the regulations work. The Rehabilitation Act was long overdue when it was passed, and though a costly measure for all taxpayers, it is potentially a great boon to the 46 million handicapped people in the U.S. But in the months ahead, there will have to be numerous clarifications and modifications of the HEW guidelines, and other federal agencies still have to publish their own requirements under the law. As the regulations are defined and refined, the spirit of the law will be more...
...handicap to Udall's position that virtue and vig or in newspapering do not turn solely on whether a paper is in local or absentee hands. Some individually owned pa pers, like William Loeb's Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader, are more noted for oldfashioned, blatant, goofy and mean-spirited eccentricity than any chain paper. Yet ideally a good independently owned paper with deep roots in its community is best for that community. That is Udall's argument. A lot of editors are properly leery about political intrusion in their business, but the trend toward concentrated ownership...