Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bronchial infection. Unresolved in the story: what caused the infection and why there was no prior evidence of it. The best segment on NBC's Wide, Wide World also had a medical background, as the camera moved into a Baltimore schoolroom to record the moving responses of deaf children to the rhythms of music communicated through their fingertips...
...leaves it she turns into a wisp of smoke." Not since Maude Adams has a famous actress cherished such a private private life. She and her husband. Stage Manager Manning Gurian. manage to live in midtown Manhattan, not ten blocks off Broadway, as quietly as two deaf theater mice in a kettledrum. They seldom go out, seldom entertain. Julie does the housework when she doesn't have a play, and takes care of the baby, Peter, who is four months old; Manning does a fair share of the cooking. "I'd like to lead a glamorous life...
...harpsichord. ("Mozart," he confides, "became a great composer. He was decorated by the Pope.") And then, as he plays Liebestraum ("A dream of love," he sighs in explanation) on Liszt's own instrument, Pianist Warrin proposes. She accepts, but fate comes between them: the pianist begins to go deaf...
...CALVIN COOLIDGE The Clarke School for the Deaf Northampton, Mass...
...clearly getting a separate satisfaction out of their own behaviour. In fact so much of the performance is contributed from the auditorium that it is as hard to assess its merits as it is to explain its success. On the last score, the ostentatiously worn deaf aid should not perhaps be overlooked. It hints at a frailty bravely overcome, and stirs all kinds of half-realized compassions, particularly in those who forget that deaf aids can be had in much less conspicuous forms nowadays...