Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jeffrey Liebman of Evanston, Ill. got a four-minute standing ovation when the President's telegram was read to a student assembly. He heard not a clap of it, having been deaf since birth. He attends Evanston's college-sized Township High, reads lips so fluently that some classmates are unaware of his deafness. Hugely versatile, Jeffrey was a state winner in the Science Talent Search for his experiment on fast evaporation, won a Carnegie Tech creative-writing prize for an essay on Salinger and Kafka, a national prize for a one-act play, and a letter...
...Jaime Borbón y Battenberg, 55, twice-married oldest living son of Alfonso XIII and uncle of Juan Carlos, who looks every inch a king but once renounced his right of succession because he is a deaf-mute. Last week Don Jaime rescinded his renunciation and laid claim to the throne as head of the house of Borb...
...John Lennon," she says, probably without blinking, although with her screen of hair it is hard to tell. John Lennon, of course, is the married Beatle, and author of such poems as "On Safairy with Whide Hunter" and "Deaf Ted, Danoota...
...through his dream Tom at last realizes that his yearning for communication is his strength, not his death. Woven in with family scenes is the Crucifixion theme; Tom must be crucified and laid bare before he can be ressurected. And at one point his old great-aunt, who is deaf to the others, reaches out and begs Tom to "touch me, reach me...If not your hand, Tom, then whose?" There will always be someone waiting to be reached...
...reading given at Lowell House is vibrant, if occasionally stiff and over stylized. Surprisingly, Mr. Schwartz himself is the weakest member of the cast, given to mumbling his lines. Sandra Robbins is superlative as the mother, Carola Dibbell sympathetically portrays the deaf aunt, and Mary Breasted is often arresting as Ellen...