Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hall is taking a stand, as your editorialist puts it, in "the marketplace of political discussion." We are all in that marketplace; there is a certain physical distance between Cambridge and the Old South, but we hear such a man as Gerald Smith nonetheless, unless we are stone deaf. The man needed answering last Sunday, and since Smith's writings and speeches are uniformly studded with such phrases as "to hell with democracy" and "when chaos comes, I will be the leader," it was quite reasonable that he be answered before he spoke at all. The Crimson editorialist fails altogether...
...little farm town of Vandalia, Ill. just about doubled its population in one day. Some 4,000 newcomers, almost all of them blind, deaf, lame or incurably ill, were there to be healed. The self-styled healer: William Branham, a bald, narrow-shouldered, shiny-eyed Kentuckian and ex-power company lineman. As each patient walked or was carried past, Branham prayed over him, felt him to see if he vibrated with demons. When the last hallelujahs had died away and the collection had been taken, one young man announced that he had flung away his hearing...
...cabin is almost as noisy as a subway train. On a long flight, McFarland reports, noise can increase fatigue, inefficiency and irritability to the danger point. There is no proof, he says, that constant flying permanently deafens airmen, but it does reduce their hearing in the higher frequencies (a deaf spot known as "aviator's notch"). The plane's vibration also may have bad physical effects; on a long flight it temporarily impairs vision and deadens certain reflexes...
...illustrators, Cruikshank and "Phiz" (Alec Guinness as Pocket is a Cruikshank in the flesh). Besides the principal actors, all of whom are excellent, the most notable (and equally good) are Bernard Miles-another living Cruikshank-as the blacksmith, Anthony Wager as the boy Pip, O. B. Clarence as a deaf-&-daft gaffer, and 17-year-old Jean Simmons as Estella in her teens...
...making great strides toward a better expression of life on earth, coming generations can give thanks that we heeded the Christian philosophy Mr. Wallace represents. If civilization declines to an era similar to the Dark Ages-or perishes completely-we can attribute this to the fact that we turned deaf ears to a small voice...