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...nine American cities (including Chicago, Washington and Los Angeles). Singing standards like Yesterday When I Was Young, The Old Fashioned Way and She is not enough to justify a solo stint on the grand scale. The star need not wear a mermaid's tail and wriggle in a wheelchair, as Bette Midler did in her recent socko turn at Radio City Music Hall. One needs simply to magnetize the spectator. Midler can do it singing The Rose; Lena Horne does it torching Stormy Weather one more time. Aznavour does not. Moreover, his show's mood is often broken...
...students remain restricted and are often deprived of a chance to make friends and become full-fledged members of the college community. In Quincy House, the only handicapped-accessible River House, disabled students must use a service elevator and trace a complicated route to reach their rooms. The two wheelchair-accessible rooms in Quincy are singles, meaning disabled students cannot have roommates. Wheelchair-accessible rooms in Currier House are also exclusively singles. For disabled students, already set apart from the Harvard community because of chauvinism from the many students who fail to understand their problems, living in a single aggravates...
Fred L. Glimp '50, vice-president for alumni affairs and development, says the enthusiasm he witnessed was "heartening." Glimp added that he remembers one poignant moment when 103-year-old Erskine Wood'01 arrived in a wheelchair for a dinner in Oregon. Wood sang President Bok a song, spoofing the president, which he and his classmates had sung to College president Charles W. Eliot in their senior year. Another group, recent graduates who all work for Microsoft. Inc., came to the same dinner wearing t-shirts sporting "Harvard Club of Microsoft...
ALMOST everyone around Harvard Square has heard the throaty cry of "wheelchair basketball" and seen a now-familiar man asking patiently for donations. The man's name is James Brooks, and he is involved in much more than basketball Brooks leads the Disabled people's Liberation Front, which for years has been losing a struggle to make more Boston movie theaters accessible to the disabled...
...DeVries was working in his office at the University of Utah Medical Center last week when he heard a faint but familiar swooshing sound. He looked up from his desk and was happily surprised to see his most famous patient, Dentist Barney Clark, roll into the room in a wheelchair. With a little assistance from his nurses, the world's first recipient of a permanent artificial heart was enjoying an afternoon outing in the hospital corridors. A few feet behind Clark, and connected to his chest by two tubes, was the source of the noise: the power unit that...