Word: polio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea of a new model attracted Coles because he did not care for the old one. An early experience crystallized that feeling. Helping to care for polio victims during the 1955 epidemic in Boston, he noticed that the patients kept talking about how they would soon be well, though they were obviously paralyzed for life. They were using what psychiatrists call "the mechanism of denial." But to Coles, that term really said very little about the patients. "You have to think of what they
...secretary, Lucy Mercer. Eleanor offered a divorce but, thinking of his political career-and for once encountering opposition from his mother-Franklin agreed to leave Lucy. Thereafter, according to Lash, the intimate side of their marriage was over. As time passed, private relations in general deteriorated even further. Polio was for Franklin the permanent blow that Lucy Mercer was for Eleanor. He spent increasing amounts of time seeking cures in the South, especially Warm Springs, where Missy LeHand was his selfless secretary and hostess...
...feeling magnified by Craig's addiction was his sense of physical inferiority: a bout with polio at age two had left him with a shortened arm. The defect was so slight that most of his friends were not aware of it, and it did not keep him from becoming expert at tennis and skiing. Yet on the tape he said. "I've lived with my physical condition, but I really can't cope with it." In the end he even doubted his sanity: "After you've taken so much of that stuff, you just really...
...Episcopal Bishop of Washington, D.C., between 1944 and 1962 an outspoken liberal; of a stroke; in Washington. "I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic," said Bishop Dun, who as a child overcame a congenital defect that warped his limbs, only to lose a leg to polio later. "It is only the love of God that redeems the human tragedy." A strong supporter of the World Council of Churches, Dun was an ardent ecumenist...
Taken together, these disorders are no doubt mild in comparison with polio, typhus and smallpox, which once ravaged entire communities. They are very nearly innocent in contrast to the more familiar and lethal cancer, heart disease, V.D. and automobile and other accidents. Perhaps it is not the destructiveness of the recent blights and diseases but their exoticism that arouses a chill of sheer human vulnerability...