Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Order's biggest province in the U.S., Last week, workmen were putting the finishing touches to $100,000 worth of improvements on St. Francis' monastery next door. The improvements include a chapel for the 250 to 300 marriage ceremonies performed each year and a confessional for the deaf, with hearing equipment...
Bell Telephone Co. paid a yo-year-old debt last week. Alexander Graham Bell was really studying the problems of the deaf when he happened to invent the telephone. Now the telephone company, grown great on his sideline invention, has developed a method of making speech visible, so that the totally deaf can read...
Most immediate use of visible speech will be in teaching the totally deaf to talk. Normal children learn to talk by listening to and copying the speech of grownups. But the average deaf child, who cannot hear his own or another's voice, learns only about 50 words in his first three years in a special school...
Bell's gadget may change all this. On a luminous screen, a deaf person can see his own spoken words and compare them with the pictured speech of an instructor. This allows him to improve his speech by imitation and by trial & error...
When Mérida was ten years old, he decided to be a musician. For six years he worked hard at piano, musical theory and composition, but an ear infection made him too deaf to go on with it. At 17, he went to Paris to study art and slavishly imitated his teachers, Van Dongen and Modigliani. Back home he discovered and concentrated on Guatemalan folk themes, spearheading the racial art movement which revolutionized Latin American painting. Later he went abstract, tried to paint a kind of visual music which would be empty of pictorial meaning, but beautifully composed...