Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public service special about measles, stressing that a serious case of measles can leave children retarded, deaf and blind-and that a safe and effective vaccine is available. The measles season begins with the spring...
Nebraska has long bragged that it has neither a sales tax nor an income tax, relies upon a property tax. Yet, its School for the Deaf cannot meet minimum standards for the care of children, the University of Nebraska's College of Medicine is in danger of losing accreditation because of poor facilities, and the university insists that it needs to boost its budget by one-third. An income tax now is probable. New Jersey is so closely divided between the two major political parties that its Governors have long been afraid to risk defeat by suggesting either...
...Painter Morris Broderson knows more than most men about living out life alone: he has the private vision of one who was born deaf. In the past few years, his extraordinary talent has earned him recognition around his native Los Angeles; now he has been added to the prestigious stable of the Downtown Gallery, which represents such noted older artists as Ben Shahn, Abraham Rattner, Stuart Davis, William Zorach and Georgia O'Keeffe. Dealer Edith Halpert introduces her new artist with a ten-year retrospective, borrowed mostly from the collections of such varied celebrities as Joseph Hirshhorn and Actor...
...Andre Marie Joseph de Gaulle, 72. His ability to bring a skillful influence to bear upon events should be enough to send a believer in impersonal historical determinism back to his books. Tall and ungainly, so dim-eyed that he constantly stumbles, so seldom a listener that he seems deaf, De Gaulle should be a figure of fun (and sometimes is), but the greatness in the man usually survives the mockery. His mind is like the Louvre, filled with battle pictures in which the French are always winning; his heart throbs with simple emotions labeled Patrie, Dieu, Gloire...
...envied actress on the island of Manhattan, since she has been given another of the playwright's memorable roles for women, Flora Goforth, whom she portrays with blinding blistering brilliance. Playgoers inured to the calculated trivia of Broadway may be infuriated, touched to the quick, or turned stone-deaf at being asked, in all seriousness, to contemplate the state of their souls at the moment of impending death...