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Hiatt says that then-University president Neil L. Rudenstine placed a “courtesy call” to AFL-CIO President John Sweeney...
...many ways, study after study has found, autistic people do not parse information as others do. University of Illinois psychologist John Sweeney, for example, has found that activity in the prefrontal and parietal cortex is far below normal in autistic adults asked to perform a simple task involving spatial memory. These areas of the brain, he notes, are essential to planning and problem solving, and among their jobs is keeping a dynamically changing spatial map in a cache of working memory. As Sweeney sees it, the poor performance of his autistic subjects of the task he set for them--keeping...
...Sweeney's collaborator, University of Pittsburgh neurologist Dr. Nancy Minshew, the images Sweeney has produced of autistic minds in action are endlessly evocative. They suggest that essential connections between key areas of the brain either were never made or do not function at an optimal level. "When you look at these images, you can see what's not there," she says, conjuring up an experience eerily akin to looking at side-by-side photographs of Manhattan with and without the Twin Towers...
This production of Sweeney Todd has much worthy of praise, including professional quality performances, music and production values. it is also laudable for approaching a well loved piece of musical theater from a new angle. It is simply unfortunate that the angle offers not a revealing new look, but rather a distorted partial view...
...understand, nevermind sympathize, with his motivations. The result is that the audience is left impressed by what it sees and hears but ultimately disconnected from the humanity of the characters themselves—a humanity that lies at the heart of the beauty and the horror that is Sweeney Todd...