Word: wheelchairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...waiting for him in the cavernous West Sitting Hall: Rosalynn, wearing a red sweater, kissing the President as he enters; Amy, ready for bed in an ankle-length nightgown; the President's mother, Miss Lillian, whom the nation has come to think of as indefatigable, now using a wheelchair because of the arthritis in her legs; Rosalynn's mother; Sons Chip and Jeff and their wives. Like the President, the other members of the Carter clan seem tired. Chip is holding his six-week-old son James Earl Carter IV in his arms. The baby is asleep...
...illusions and expectations. Thus Goretta can give us the essentials of action in a scene that is pared down to two single shots. A procession of people in black pass by and we think Pierre's father has died. In the next shot he sits quietly in his wheelchair. Pierre's wife is always riding her bicycle backwards. Only at the children's benefit do we understand...
...Lilys go on and on. Down there in the front row is Lupe, the world's oldest beautician, whose face seems more left than lifted. "Lines, lines, go away," she says. "Pay a visit to Doris Day." At the back of the theater, sitting in a wheelchair, is Crystal the Terrible Tumble weed. A quadraplegic, Crystal has been crossing the country in her wheelchair, the CB-equipped Iron Duchess; when last seen, she was on her way to hang-glide off Big Sur, Calif. Swaggering down the aisle, belching and downing a beer at the same time, is Rick...
...dining hall. He feels students like himself, less severely disabled than Drafts, should live in regular student housing. With some renovation, Mather and Leverett could more easily accomodate the disabled than other Houses. Currier is a fourth potentially accessible House but none of the shuttle buses have wheelchair lifts...
...Bordley '79, who is blind, says "That's one thing I like about Harvard. There aren't too many obstacles...The area is kind of weird as far as streets and sidewalks go, but for classrooms it's okay." Fiedler, however, points out the difficulty for students in wheelchairs to reach distant spots like the Divinity School and Hilles Library. Often Fiedler cannot leave Quincy in snowstorms because he finds snow piled on the curb cutouts. The students have no special problems making classes on time. "I might have trouble getting from class to class, but not because...