Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reading Public. In Indianapolis, Reporter Bruce Hilton stood on the street with dark glasses, guitar, a tin cup, and a sign announcing: "I am not blind, deaf, dumb or crippled, and do not want any money," in 40 minutes collected...
...Austria's Wagna refugee camp tried to question him, he could only stare at them with round, uncomprehending eyes. At last his data was entered in the records: "Name-unknown; parents-unknown; place of birth-unknown; height-141 centimeters. Identifying features: scar on chin; scar on belly. Deaf and dumb...
...farmhouse ablaze, an exploding bomb, a boy running into a woods, a vineyard recognizably Yugoslavian by the way the vines were staked, another farmhouse and another man & wife told further chapters of the deaf-mute odyssey. A final drawing showed the Austrian guard picking him up at the border...
Questions. There were many unanswered questions in the saga. Authorities hoped that treatment at a state hospital for the deaf & dumb at Graz might provide the answers to some of them: doctors guessed that shock had taken his speech. Meanwhile, Janos himself offered one more sphinxlike hint'. On the night last week before he left Wagna for Graz, the boy's restlessness awakened some of the other refugees. Suddenly they heard a high-pitched, quavering voice. It was Janos talking in his sleep. "I must wait five more years!" he cried in Serbian. When he woke next morning...
...suppose you might call Flesh and Fury a message movie. It is all about deafness, sympathy, greed, etc., and every line is loaded--ready to go off in the direction of some great truth. Tony Curtis, as "Dummy" Callan--a deaf boxer who regains his hearing only to lose it again--sums up the moral in one sentence: "I don't feel different." That is the great truth then: deaf people are not sub-human after...