Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political fisticuffs back home, and he returned occasionally to refresh his memory. In 1848, when the U.S. was at war with Mexico, he painted his War News from Mexico. From the shirt-sleeved fellow shouting out the story, to the little Negro girl in her everyday dress and the deaf old patriarch in his straight-backed chair, Woodville perfectly captured the sense of awe and thrill of pride surrounding the derring-do down South. Americans apparently thought so too-they bought 14,000 prints of the painting...
Even more frustrating and productive of angry, spontaneous violence is the inability of many Negroes to climb the economic and social ladder. The mode of existence that deaf, dumb, and often blind whites have often unthinkingly forced on them makes "self-starting" frequently impossible. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, a book that has gained status as a sociological document, suggests that it is natural for many Negroes in the ghettos to drift into bitterness and search for constanct kicks...
...became convinced of their "selfishness" because, as she explained, "they were deaf to any discussion of economics." During her first meeting with the girls last March, she argued that if the College allowed more than 36 girls to live in apartments, it would lose about $1000 for each girl, the amount each would normally pay in room and board...
...cars to fraudulent property sales and fakery of U.S. dollars. Fortunately, the sheer volume of such crime distracts Interpol from any interest in such divisive matter as spying-or so it proudly claims. "In an affair involving politics, religion or race," runs one of its prime rules, "Interpol is deaf and dumb...
Often, special training means being packed off to a school for the deaf where the child is forced into awareness that he is "different" and less than normal. Also, the hearing aid is frequently not put on until the age of two, when the child has already begun to accommodate himself to a special closed world...