Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...snapshots, newsreel footage and the narrative voice of Katharine Cornell-the well-known story of how at the age of 19 months Helen lost sight and hearing from a childhood illness. At the age of seven she "began to live" when Anne Mansfield Sullivan, a trained teacher of the deaf and blind, came to work with...
Word got around. Before long, Cheshire's cousin's janitor's wife's bedridden grandmother joined them. "She was as deaf as a post, and I had to shout at her the whole time. She would talk to me about her cat and keep saying, 'I want to go home. I want to go home.' One afternoon she suddenly threw her arms around me and said, 'I love you.' I was a bit surprised, but I hugged her back and shouted, 'I love...
...Sica's use of the everyday drama of a railroad station--a pregnant woman and a traveling class from a deaf and dumb school--occasionally brightens the submerged conflict. It is a losing cause, however, for he has stretched one poignant incident past the breaking point into a full-length feature...
...Elizabeth, "I drew a woman who is a spiritual and physical offense to me ... I suppose that she must be about 60 years old. . . She clutched my arm and drew me close to her steaming and opulent form." Ickes got out of talking to her by pretending he was deaf in his left ear. Of F.D.R.'s Potomac cruises he thought no more than he did of state dinners: "It means sitting on a hot deck hour in and hour out. with little to do except to swat flies." Dinners at the White House were "dull and tiresome...
Festival judges denied that they had ever been deceived. They were always aware that some of the children on the festival stage were not singing, but they tolerated the practice of goldfishing because it enabled even tone-deaf children to share in the fun, and might eventually develop latent musical talent in some of the unpromising. There was also something to be said, perhaps, for the training in dramatics that the goldfish received. Reported one veteran chorister: "The ones who don't sing always have the most expression on their faces...