Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest of his exhausting U.S. tour, Ayub needed all the iron he had. He found the President deaf to his impertinent insistence that the U.S. halt military aid to neutral India, got only silence from Catholic Kennedy when he asked for U.S. help in controlling Pakistan's soaring birth rate. (Said Ayub: "We want to be able to make 'em take a pill, then poof, that's that.") But Ayub did not hesitate to tell Kennedy exactly what he thought of Nehru ("People think he's thinking. Actually, he's just in a trance...
None of it would have happened, Edison once said, if he had not been almost completely deaf: he perfected the phonograph in 1887 because his own faulty hearing made him fascinated by the science of sound. His invention so fascinated the public that in those early years audiences sat for whole evenings in stunned silence listening to the tinfoil phonograph crow like a cock, bark like a dog or babble in foreign tongues. Later, the German Pianist-Conductor Hans von Bulow was so moved by Edison's handiwork that when he heard a recording of himself playing a Chopin...
...only $100 to $150 a month, once had a street fight with his Soviet superior, one Stephan Choundenko, about the low wages. As he testified, Jack Soble was constantly interrupted by defense objections. "I can hear you," he cried to his brother's attorney. "I'm not deaf." He said he had "spent hundreds of sleepless nights when I examined myself and my brother's life, and why did we go this way in America?" And he answered his own question: "I was always in a state of fear of the Russians, as was my brother, even...
...could make deaf stockbrokers read my two pages on music, the alleged joke being that I knew nothing about it. The real joke was that I knew all about...
Sorrowfully, Jackie Gleason heaved himself upright and looked at Gene Kelly. The two are in Paris trying to film a movie called Gigot, about a lovable deaf-mute bum whose best friend is an alley cat. In the first scene, the cat is supposed to hear an alarm clock, wake up, and then rouse his deaf ami by licking his face. But the first dozen Parisian alley cats had flunked their screen tests. Gleason, who plays Gigot, swabbed off the sardine oil and discussed things with Actor-Director Kelly. Importing trained cats from Hollywood would cost almost...