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...second sort of obstacle the disabled experience here is the unfortunate attitude about us that is manifest in the frequent condescending treatment we receive from many, though certainly not all, able-bodied people. The latter are usually well-meaning and good hearted, but are all too often unwittingly insulting. People invade our privacy, address us with patronizingly false cheer and blithely disregard our expressed wishes. This behavior seems to be derived from the assumption that we are not fully functioning adults and therefore must be treated like patients or children, doing what others think best...
Ravenel had seldom known this sort of misfortune in his earlier years. A native of Charleston, S.C., he was First Marshal of his class at Harvard, and later entered Harvard Business School. Afterward, he became a successful investment banker on Wall St. and a White House Fellow...
Nyiregyházi refuses to ride the new wave of publicity. He rules out concert appearances. Always a nervous performer, he is now terrified by audiences and can only play when in a sort of in spired trance. He fears criticism, to the point that he records only less-known romantic works and his own transcriptions of symphonic and operatic works. "Musicians have always disapproved of my style as too emotional, too idiosyncratic," he says. "So now I prefer to record works where no one can compare me to anyone else. I want to do only what I want...
...little bit of this sort of humor goes a long way, a lesson that the gifted Fran Lebowitz has yet to learn. Metropolitan Life (Button; $8.50) blitzes the reader with such lines as "Food gives real meaning to dining room furniture . . . Children are rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money ... If God had meant for everything to happen at once, he would not have invented desk calendars . . . Sleep is death without the responsibility." It is a foppish wit that is very conscious of taste, class and sexual pre dilections, but Lebowitz herself remains...
...overdone in South Carolina that one member this year exposed the absurdity with a resolution intended to commend "all persons, male and female, young and old, tall and short, fat and skinny, who have performed any act or deed during the past five months worthy of commendation." A sort of subdued microphilia was evident in Concord, where New Hampshire's solons spent several months intensely debating the question of whether they had any reason to be in session at all. In such an atmosphere it is not surprising that a. typical legislative leader. New Jersey Assembly Speaker Christopher Jackman...