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...were an immigrant church, we put a wall around the people, and we did a good job of protecting them. We maintained their faith. But we could no longer stay in our shelter. We let down the drawbridge and crossed the moat, and we're out in the mainstream of America...
...that attitudes such as these accomplish is to group people with disabilities together in a composite image called "the disabled," assigning them a secondary role outside society. Behind their praise for "courage" and "achievements" is the message that when we do break into mainstream society we are only there because of some superior personal qualities, not because that is our rightful place as human beings. Attitudinal barriers often stem from discomfort and fear, and create a barrier for which there is no ready solution. Underneath them is a wish to avoid contact with people with disabilities, perhaps out of fear...
Several major newspapers carried Feiffer daily thoughout his heyday in the 60s 70s. But now, although he is still visible: the cartoonist has essentially returned to his Greenwich Village roots in the more limited-audience Village Voice. For the mainstream left, he is largely replaced by his equivalent in modern-day sociopolitical commentary, Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury, Feiffer's America underlines this retreat to the outskirts, but still preserves the high points of a brilliant career...
...determination to encourage the building of a new Salvadoran national consensus. The Administration's aim is to give the provisional authorities a chance to seize "the initiative from the F.D.R. and F.M.L.N. by offering opportunities for elements of the extreme left to return to the political mainstream." The U.S. hopes that the Salvadoran government will find ways to involve all major nonguerrilla groups, including the Roman Catholic Church, business, labor and rural peasants in that effort...
...after he speed-balled (mixed heroin and cocaine). Punk language has made a couple of its disarmingly nasty contributions: sleaze (as in, "There was a lot of sleaze at the party," meaning much of the transcendentally rotten) has passed from the homosexual vocabulary into punk, and is headed for mainstream English...