Word: normale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wheel only he is ever permitted to spin. "Hey," he said calmly, "this is too bad." Whidden says, "When something like that goes wrong it usually manifests itself into one huge screw-up, because everyone has to do an extra job and ends up one step behind in his normal duties." But in three minutes and two seconds, both the jib and the jig were up. The Kiwis never caught the campers...
Greenfeld the father knows his family has been visited by a private tragedy; Greenfeld the writer understands that the ordeal of caring for Noah calls into question everything that passes for normal. Extreme situations clarify the muddles of the middle ground. The author, past 50 and worried about his blocked coronary artery, asks himself, "What do I want out of life?" and answers, " 'Life itself.' Which really, for alleged sophistication of my brain, puts me in Noah's shoes. So why should his life be worth anything less than mine...
...Greenfeld records what goes on in his house in Pacific Palisades, Calif. Both sons enter their teens, and Karl, who gets there first, begins outraging his father with typical adolescent behavior. After one acrimonious argument, the author manages a desperate joke: "This family could be worse. Noah could be normal." But Noah is not. "It is no fun," Greenfeld notes, "to have him pull hair right out of your scalp and then put it in his mouth and swallow it." And Noah is growing physically, if not mentally. Someday soon the parents will not be able to control...
...reminds colleagues of the tremendous pressures 30 years ago to cut corners to get a polio vaccine. But, he notes, thousands of lives were saved when researchers took the time to get it right. "The point is," he sums up, "that you have to avoid passion. You must follow normal procedures...
...Correspondent Jon D. Hull took up residence on the streets of Philadelphia. Some of the people he met, like a former construction worker named George, are still struggling to find a way up. Others, like a former machinist named Gary, seem hopelessly caught in the undertow. Many once led normal lives, with jobs and families and homes...