Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first harmony achieved by the Luxembourg quartet-when the Big Four at last agreed on something and awarded the tiny Italian communities of Briga and Tenda to France-sounded off-key to a man who had a perfect ear for music, but who was politically a little tone deaf...
...Breaking Home Ties (a gloomy, gawky boy, hat in hand, enduring a last, long look from his mother while the menfolk wait to take him to the depot), and John Henry Lorimer's Mariage de Convenance (in which a weeping, heavily veiled bride collapses in her room, deaf to the happy chirps of two little bridesmaids who have come to fetch her down). They generally admired Romney's pink-cheeked Willett Children for seeming recently tubbed and scrubbed yet true-to-life...
...Prosecution. Once again Farrell's satire is "like elephants out for a good romp" (as the late New Republic critic Otis Ferguson aptly described it). The dialogue, as usual, is tone-deaf, and the adverbial crunches devastating (Bernard "winced inwardly"; "'Blah!' the drunk angrily ejaculated...
...open sky" was close to nature and its violence-"the storms overflow its streets. . . . Nature's weight is so heavy on it that this most modern of cities is also the dirtiest. . . . When I go out I walk in blackish snow. . . . Even in . . . my apartment a hostile, deaf, mysterious Nature assails me. I seem to be camping in the heart of a jungle swarming with insects. . . . There are the roaches that run through my kitchen, the elevators that make my heart contract...
Eccentric & Enormous. Like the works of other Southern writers (Carson McCullers, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner) Author Welty's earlier books also had their full quota of human abnormalities (including two deaf mutes, one case of dementia praecox, one spinster drowned in a rain barrel). Delta Wedding adds only one: an amiable child who is not all there. But she is very much all there as one of the eccentric, enormous Fairchilds family-nonchalant Mississippi gentlefolk who flit in & out of the doors and windows of their ancestral mansion much as the yellow butterflies flitted in & out of the train...