Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plaster Fell." Happy as he is with his art, Goodman thinks the timpanist's skill is not sufficiently understood. He doubts whether even conductors-since few have ever been timpanists themselves -can thoroughly appreciate the subtleties of a kettledrummer's tone and pitch. But only the deaf can miss it when the percussion comes in wrong...
...Faculty Committee on Undergraduate Activities, and later President Conant, turned a deaf ear to the proposals...
...shadow and mascara of "gracious living." Today Author Halsey is happily remarried and the mother of a four-year-old daughter. She is, by her own description, a middle-class mamma who "wears cotton shirts and blue jeans to everything but weddings, christenings and funerals." She turns a deaf ear to the clang of falling shekels. Being well-to-do has convinced her that The Dream is pure nightmare...
Rinehart told his audience that one evening, when he had remained deaf to the cries of his friends on the path below his room, in Grays, another friend of his, Frank Simmonds, took up the cry from Matthews...
...lunch (bread, olives, cheese, fruit) provided in haste by the American Friends of the Middle East (organized by. U.S. Columnist Dorothy Thompson), the hajjis were hustled aboard the big planes, 50 to a flight. All day long the transports shuttled back & forth to Jidda. One old man, deaf and blind at 85, was led aboard a plane by his son. "This is help sent by Allah," the son told the U.S. pilot. "We are linked together today by love and faith." Another passenger on the magic carpet provided by the U.S. was irascible old Mullah Kashani, Iran's bitterly...