ellauri145.html on line 535: Intellectuals very often have an image the same way rock stars and movie directors do. There’s the real person, and there’s the body of work they create, and then there’s the image, the popular conception of that person. Most people don’t understand theoretical physics and are not interested in learning the math to do so, and most people probably wouldn’t understand anything in the papers that Hawking has authored or co-authored. But most of us know who Hawking was, not only because he wrote popular books but because he was paralyzed and sat in a wheelchair and had a robot voice. The idea of a theoretical physicist who does all his work with his brain even though his body is destroyed and speaks through a machine is almost like a comic book character, and the popular imagination loves that.
ellauri222.html on line 435: Einhorn is a highly intelligent and wealthy real-estate broker whom Augie goes to work for while still a junior in high school. As Einhorn is crippled and wheelchair-bound, Augie carries him to and from the car and assists him in other daily activities. Einhorn loses almost everything in the great stock market crash, but works hard to build his business up again.
ellauri226.html on line 370: trying to attack each other in their wheelchairs.
ellauri238.html on line 769: 1993, already in a wheelchair, Herbert became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The last years of his life he spent in bed fighting with severe asthma. Herpertti olis saanut taistelustaan punaisia vastaan valkoisen kotkan pinssin postuumisti vasemmistopresidentiltä, mutta leski ei huolinut pinssiä ennenkuin presidentti oli vaihtunut oikeistolaisexi.
ellauri370.html on line 551: In 1923 Chamberlain met "most respected and dear" Adolf Hitler in Wagner festival at Bayreuth, and in September he sat in his wheelchair next to Hitler during the völkisch "German Day" paraolympic parade. Hitler rejoiced "like a child" at the news, skipping the same way as with Mannerheim.
xxx/ellauri103.html on line 279: Membership of a larger group is not an identity. Being Asian is not an identity. Being gay is not an identity. Being deaf, blind, or wheelchair-bound is not an identity, nor is being economically deprived. Now what is an identity then? Silly, it is the number on your ID card! That's an identity! Everybody is unique, and I in particular am special! There are no classes except singletons! We are haecceitates every one of us. Us? There is no such thing as us, there is just me and me and me ... and me myself.
xxx/ellauri122.html on line 1040: Then they tried to make a disabled Barbie in a wheelchair, but the wheelchair wouldn’t fit into the Dream House or the House’s elevator. Äänet Barbien feminismistä menee aika 50-60. Math is difficult. Can't wait to plan my wedding, said Anna.
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