Word: infirmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...born James Alfred Wight did not begin writing until his early 50s, when he took the pen name Herriot and soon made up for lost time. His charming anecdotes of life as an English country vet tapped into the urban reader's apparently bottomless appetite for pastoral simplicity and infirm animals; All Creatures Great and Small, published in the U.S. in 1972, made Herriot a literary sensation-a status further enhanced by the popular BBC series based on his work. His 20 books were eventually translated into 20 languages. Meanwhile, British veterinary schools became swamped with applicants, and Herriot...
Jean-Hugues Anglade, last seen in "Killing Zoe," has a blast as King Charles IX, demented, infirm, childish and incestuous. He even gets a wonderful death scene where he literally sweats blood. Vincent Perez has precious little to do besides being precious and using his melting pulchritude to best advantage. Virna Lisi, who took the acting prize at Cannes, gives the best performance in the movie. Her take on Catherine de Medici moves between the campy and the affecting. Those who speak French may have to fight the temptation to imitate her thick Italian accent. Playing Catherine de Medici...
Should the homeless, retarded and mentally-infirm elderly be exterminated to make room for smart people? Should the horrors of the Holocaust be ignored to rethink the old master race idea? Such an "intellectual cleansing" campaign was proposed in a recent newsletter for a Los Angeles chapter of Mensa, the organization for high-IQ people who should know better. Many of the chapter's 2,000 members have been up in arms since the November issue of Lament appeared, the Los Angeles Times reported today. Authored by two Mensa writers, one article asserts that Adolf Hitler's greatest crime...
...there will be a situation very similar to the current one, in which one-third care, and two-thirds don't. The difference will be that legions of the old, the young, and the infirm will now have to wonder who belongs to which group...
...because the family is at the same time our "haven in a heartless world." Theoretically, and sometimes actually, the family nurtures warm, loving feelings, uncontaminated by greed or power hunger. Within the family, and often only within the family, individuals are loved "for themselves," whether or not they are infirm, incontinent, infantile or eccentric. The strong (adults and especially males) lie down peaceably with the small and weak...