Word: spastic
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Ordered Normality. That the U.S. is tortured cannot be denied. That it is gravely sick is too simplistic a view. After the first spastic reaction to the Kennedy murder (see PRESS), most commentators rejected a blanket diagnosis of disease while at the same time refusing to completely absolve U.S. society and civilization for what had happened. John Kenneth Galbraith, no Pollyanna when it comes to national flaws, observed last week that "the greater danger in our day than violence is unfocused selfcriticism. Nothing so serves as an excuse from reality...
...Humor is one way to meet an insoluble obstacle and ease insupportable pain. Peter Nichols' tender play tells of a shaky marriage held together by a spastic daughter. Donal Donnelly and Zena Walker deftly balance laughter and pain...
...Humor is one way to meet an insoluble obstacle and ease insupportable pain. Peter Nichols' tender play tells of a shaky marriage held together by a spastic daughter. Donal Donnelly and Zena Walker deftly balance laughter and pain...
...Into his unlikely comedy Peter Nichols throws snatches of tap-dance routines, jazz and vaudeville turns that leaven the tale of a young British couple (Zena Walker and Donal Donnelly) who camouflage the fragility of their marriage by concentrating their attentions and emotions on their hopelessly spastic daughter...
...Into his unlikely comedy, Peter Nichols throws snatches of tap-dance routines, jazz, and vaudeville turns to leaven the tale of a young British couple (Zena Walker and Donal Donnelly) who camouflage the fragility of their marriage by concentrating their attentions and emotions on their hopelessly spastic daughter...