Word: spastics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remarkable story of one child. The story was told by the U.S. Sixth Fleet's Admiral Charles Brown, and it concerned the son of his old friend Jack Peurifoy, onetime (1950-53) U.S. Ambassador to Greece. The child's name was Clinton Peurifoy, and he was a spastic...
...Antonio, rock 'n' roll was banned from city swimming-pool jukeboxes because, said the city council, its primitive beat attracted "undesirable elements" given to practicing their spastic gyrations in abbreviated bathing suits...
Only when the heroine goes into her ''dance of vengeance" do things liven up again. At that point Conductor Mitropoulos took over the dancer's role for himself, shrugging one shoulder grotesquely to the syncopated piano rhythm, splaying the fingers of his left hand to the spastic tempos. The music got more conventional in texture as it got noisier, but ultimately, sheer noise was sufficient: as the last, clubbing chord thundered out, the Philharmonic's subscribers gasped, and then burst into applause...
...mother's gentle "Come along" when the nurse summoned them. So did his attempts to talk. He was a victim of the athetoid type of cerebral palsy, marked by almost continual jerky movements that are worsened whenever the victim tries to execute the simplest task. (In the spastic type, equally common, any effort results in slow, jerky movements...
...possesses a liberal mind. I do not know if he possesses a mind. Yet it is obvious to me that his report of the Buckley lecture exemplified the same kind of inconsistency of which Mr. Buckley was concerned. Indeed, Mr. Gwirtzman might well deserve the title of "mental spastic," a phrase used by Mr. Buckley...