Word: variously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...known various people classed an disabled, and as the world isn't best-adapted to their needs, they tend to be quite practiced at adapting their behavior--including letting others know when assistance is required. It is possible that Martinez's elementary school class was long on helpfulness but short on other aspects of etiquette. Just as it is good to know the posture with which to guide a blind person across the street, it is good to know how to ask. MICHAEL J. EPSTEIN '00 NYANI-IISHA F. MARTIN '97 CLAUDIA MASTROIANNI '91-'94 NANCY A. SIMS '97 BARBARA...
Needless to say, problems have a tendency to run rampant in our brick Camelot. Do any of us do anything about it? Deal with our issue-filled lives? We read the brightly colored signs on the back of the doors in the bathroom stalls in Lamont. Various hotlines vie for our attention. Does anybody call and say, "Hi, life sucks and I can't handle this"? Do we make appointments at Mental Health Services? Do we drop by the Bureau of Study Counsel? Do we deal with our issues...
Despite the various viewpoints discussed at the conference, Chait said the participants did not emerge with any sort of conclusion paper or formal recommendation...
...Verghese hides little or nothing. He is completely honest about the realities of the horrors and problems he describes. A more simple yet vivid portrayal of the habits, methods and thoughts of intravenous drug addicts would be hard to find. Verghese obviously writes from experience. His characterizations of the various addicts whose lives he touches as a doctor of internal medicine are lucid, compelling and endearing. These are obviously real people, and they tell it like it is--from where they get their drugs to how they inject to how it makes them feel. Verghese shows a soft, susceptible side...
...Fantasy on Bizet's Carmen brought the concert to a triumphant close. The sultry melodies and sensual Spanish rhythms of Bizet's opera Carmen have led many composers to excerpt various dances and songs from the work. The flamboyant style of the melodies have made the work especially attractive to composers looking for virtuoso showpieces, and for no instrument has the opera been more metamorphosized in this manner than the violin. Pablo de Sarasota's Carmen Fantasy is probably the most famous, but there are also violin works by the German composer Franz Taxman and the Hungarian Jennie Hubby. Friday...