Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leader devoted to rigid standards of old-fashioned morality, to a stern and equal application of law, to an open and accountable Administration. Until the Watergate mess is cleared up, Nixon's closest political and official associates -and the President himself-will be operating under the handicap of a widespread and bipartisan suspicion that they have something sinister to hide...
...seems to me that the crucial error in Dan Swanson's article (March 16) and Martin Kilson's letter (March 22) is the assumption that apartheid is benign. I would say that at Harvard this malignant apartheid is more of a handicap to white students, whose welfare neither Kilson nor Swanson have considered. I would advise any black student who wants to learn about white society or its so called success methods to go out and learn about Cambridge and Boston--something which is very easy to do. A black student can learn about white society in the Institute...
Parents of a child with any sort of handicap often have to face what seem to be insurmountable obstacles in getting any kind of education for their child. The child must be tested and diagnosed, and his level of performance ascertained. If he cannot be placed in a regular classroom situation, it must be determined whether he is "suitable" for the special classes given in the public schools. If no public class is found which meets the child's needs, the parents a faced with a difficult choice: either to brave the long waiting lists and phenomenal expenses...
...Mondale noted that when he held a hearing to argue against more aircraft carriers, it was a case of "myself and one college kid versus the U.S. Navy and everybody who wanted to build a carrier, or who had a friend who was an ensign or above. We foolishly handicap ourselves by failing to properly staff ourselves...
According to standard theory, such an experience during a child's first year should handicap him for life. But Harvard Psychologist Jerome Kagan last week reported quite different findings. By the time children in San Marcos reach the age of eleven, Kagan told the American Association for the Advancement of Science, they score as high on tests of memory, reasoning ability and perception as middle-class American children. So except in cases of physical defects, he concluded, "infant retardation is reversible, and cognitive development in the early years is plastic...