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...three year study of attitudes toward the maimed, two German psychologists, Gerd Jansen and Otto Esser, questioned 1,600 adults and 1,000 school-age children. To avoid hypocrisy, they even checked some of their cases with lie detectors...
...younger the children being tested, the more pronounced their aversion to the handicapped. "Rejection is the spontaneous reaction," says Esser. "As children grow into society's system of norms, they also grow into pity." - Children dislike slightly handicapped 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...
...physically normal person's aversion to the handicapped is based on his unconscious fear of being struck by a similar fate. As Jansen and Esser see it, the burden-perhaps an impossibly heavy one-is on the victim himself, to let others know how he would like to be treated and to shift attention away from his damaged body and toward the self inside...
...ESSER Milwaukee
...recorded before, bring generally good news of a still-shimmering voice. Not all the high reaches are easily secured, but her warmth, womanliness and pleading pianissimos are most touching in some of the other roles, notably that of the mother in Cilea's L'Arlesiana singing Esser madre è un inferno...