Word: wheelchaired
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another experiment, children are asked to group related pictures. Boys again pay attention to details, perhaps putting together pictures that show people with an arm raised; girls make functional groupings of, for example, a doctor, a nurse and a wheelchair...
...Hilltop School for retarded and deformed children. Each Friday morning the redoubtable patrolman dons his red bandanna and scoutmaster's cap and takes charge of 15 of the most heartbreaking youngsters in all of New England. One lad has only half a face, another is strapped into a wheelchair, several others are schizophrenic; most have an unfavorable prognosis. During one meeting, a boy who could not talk until Poulin formed the troop reads haltingly through the Scout oath, then breaks into happy shouts of "Scout! Scout!" when he is done...
...youngsters more than gravely handicapped ones. Esser's explanation is that healthy children at first think of a child with a minor defect as an equal, but then are disappointed and angered when they find he cannot keep up. By contrast, a child on crutches or in a wheelchair is so "different" that the healthy child feels no sense of identification. ∧ Ignorance is a major obstacle to social contact with the handicapped. Ninety percent of those interviewed said they did not know how to approach such a person: Would it hurt him to shake hands? they wondered...
...young footballer and aspiring writer (Malcolm McDowell) is abruptly struck down with an unnamed disease that cripples his legs and sours his disposition. Convalescing in a London hospital, he scoots around in his wheelchair, snorting at the chaplain, scorning doctors' advice and generally making a nuisance of himself. Soon he meets a pretty fellow patient with a similar affliction (Nanette Newman). Zapped by love, McDowell begins to sell his poems and stories and even manages to solve the thorny technical problem of how to neck in two wheelchairs. Marriage is inevitable. But not, in this kind of movie...
...Rose Kennedy, at 81 looking incredibly youthful, the closest thing to a Queen Mother that the U.S. offers. Glamorously Givenchied, she sat beside Composer Bernstein while Edward Kennedy, Composer Aaron Copland and Washington Mayor Walter Washington provided background. For human interest there was Mrs. Walter Washington in a wheelchair and a hip-high cast, refusing to let a pulled ligament interfere with...