Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Currently the center is using about 200 symbols arranged on wooden trays attached to wheelchairs. With demonstrations and explanations from their teachers, six brain-damaged youngsters are learning to use their fingers or a special clock hand fastened to the trays to point to the symbol that expresses what they want to say. Naturally there are symbols for such simple words as yes and no, hello and goodbye, man and woman. There is also a symbol for action that turns a noun into a verb. For example, a child who wants to say "Father sees mother" points first...
...sign for animal is ψ; for needs ψ, a slanting figure to suggest dependency; for food ψ , a mouth over the earth. All these can be put together to say "The animal needs food." To express emotions, a youngster can point to the sign for happy...
There is one other thing keeping Wilson from retirement. Inside the dynamic, socially committed tycoon lurks a youngster who never quite got over his love affair with land. "There's no one who loves land more than me," he admits. For that kind of man, no job in the world could offer more: a chance to chase daylight round the world, clambering over hills, slogging through rain forests, stalking through prairie grass in a never-ending hunt for the perfect motel site, Kemmons Wilson's ultimate golden...
Married to a Manhattan lawyer, Critic Duffy is a cooking and opera buff who has been a bibliophile since her childhood in Cambridge, Mass. As a youngster she went through a period of fascination with all writings medieval and devoured battle accounts of World War II. After earning a degree in English at Radcliffe, she worked briefly for a publishing house that is now defunct, then joined TIME in 1960 as a Books researcher. Three years ago she became a full-time critic. "If my job ever became such that I couldn't read on my own, I would...
...year-old daughter. Aware that the state-supported center gave priority to children of single, low-income mothers, she was confident that her daughter would be accepted. What she did not know, however, was that her salary ($600 a month) put her in a top-fee bracket: placing her youngster in the center would cost her $200 a month, far more than she could afford. "She came in here so strong," the center's director recalled. "Then, as we talked about her situation, she began to crumble. She didn't stand a chance." Now the mother has gone...