Word: infirmity
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...largely in the tropical and sub-tropical regions. But even in a country like the U.S., if you look at a hot spell like the one a few summers ago in Chicago, hundreds of people died. Those people were not people like you or me, they were elderly, infirm, who could not afford to buy or maybe even turn on an air-conditioner...
...whether Mayr Girard is insane or not, Insanity leaves no doubt about the inhumanity of ancient mental institutions. Robertson illustrates in shocking detail the primitive treatment of the mentally infirm in days gone by. The cackling of the Furies as splinters were placed under the thumbnails of patients or as patients were thrust into freezing cold baths is enough to chill the blood. The play also discusses the plight of women, which is no coincidence as director Miriam R. Asnes '02 is a women's studies concentrator. Mary Girard, like many women of her time, was legally under the power...
...mind. Maybe I'm working with an old paradigm, like Munich, but I can't help it. I think of the case of Franz Stangl, a perfectly conventional Vienna policeman and good citizen who after the Anschluss became a security officer at hospitals for the aged, infirm and imbecilic, and helped--humanely at first, so they said--to ease the very worst cases, the utterly hopeless, the deformed and subhuman, toward a death that all reasonable people at the time thought would be the only decent thing. Having launched himself upon the course, Stangl did a giant slalom down...
...would like to think that some day when I am old and infirm, young healthy people will offer to help me across the street, give me their seats on the bus or carry my groceries. To offer help is a mark of respect, not an insult. To offer such help in no way implies that I am better than another person, or that she could not help me as well, with skills that I do not possess...
...jumped into the midst of this chaos chasing after the last bus home. Fraternity and equality were forgotten as we ran through the crowd. All that mattered was liberty. The bus appeared in the distance and a cry went up. The very young, old and infirm were left in the dust as the mob surged forward. We dodged and wove our way to the bus with the knowledge that only the strong would survive. Dashing ahead of a gaggle of tourists in matching outfits, we leapt onto the bus roaring with victory as the doors closed on those...