Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just." Zelo Shemansky counters his wife's attacks by going into fits, "twitching like a toilet chain." While balancing the Shemansky powers, crippled son Barish fiendishly maximizes tension and antagonism. Then there are the long-absent daughter, Yahina (another Ma in the making), her husband, Feivet, a deaf mute, and her son, Pildesh, who while urinating from a fourth floor window, tumbles out. The savior of this twisted family is old, orange-eyed. Vossen Gleich, with his lopsided chest ("one side sunk in, the other humped and swollen to his chin"), who ends his virginity with poor, sickly Mrs. Charpolsky...
Throughout the book, in alternating sections, Carruth's narrator presents himself to the reader in a strange double exposure-as he appeared in the early 1950s, when he had his first breakdown, and as he appears now, writing while caring for a deaf-mute as atonement for past sins. In the earlier period the narrator is (as Carruth was) a poet, editor, and a nihilist who thinks that "1 must be really half dead" but is not particularly disturbed by the fact: most of contemporary America, he implies, is in pretty much the same shape. The agent...
...Alliance has never been wider. When French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Nurville conferred with President Kennedy last week, paving the way for a De Gaulle visit to the U.S. next year, the difference of their opinions made it, in the words of one diplomat, "a dialogue of the deaf...
...19th century political lore. From his contention that the government serves only as a guardian of the natural laws of competition follow all his domestic positions. But in foreign policy the benign policeman becomes a strong-armed archangel, a Michael brandishing his flaming sword around the globe, turning deaf ears on the cries of the stricken. Goldwater himself admits that his is not the spirit of the times: "You are not going to reverse all these trends immediately. If you did it would be rather disastrous...
...Pope's speech clearly invited the Orthodox prelates to send observers to the second session of the Vatican Council, which begins Sept. 29. But Orthodoxy remains a little deaf, even though one of the observers from the World Council of Churches is Greek Orthodox, and the Patriarchate of Moscow will probably send two delegates to the second session, as it did to the first. Three weeks ago, Athenagoras I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and first among equals of the Orthodox prelates, invited the other Eastern churches to meet at Rhodes on Sept. 19 to reconsider the question...