Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cunning. She is strange, capricious, almost moronic. What she is looking for, as she darts about in her Jaguar or flits from London to Chicago or Paris, is a usable identity and some emotional connections. The story concludes melodramatically with a murder, but before that, Eva has adopted a deaf-mute child from a black-market ring and proposed marriage to a youth much younger than...
This article is especially important to me since I am deaf and miss most of the verbalizations of the show. When my wife, who can hear, explains them to me, they just don't seem funny. Your story effectively delineated that lost spontaneity...
...picture of Pueblo crewmen [Oct. 18]: You better brush up on your sign language. According to a deaf-mute employee of the Detroit Free Press, those four men in the picture are spelling out HELP...
CARSON McCULLERS should have left her first novel untitled. Its story of a deaf-mute who becomes a confessor for an odd assortment of searching, lost human beings has in my opinion been generally overrated. Her book is good, but it hardly lives up to the promise of its haunting, haiku-like title -- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter...
...film version has taken the relationship between John Singer (Alan Arkin), the deaf-mute who unites the five disparate subplots of the novel, and a young girl named Mick (Sondra Locke), and made it the central theme of the movie. Curiously, although we now see more of Singer, he has become a guardian angel rather than the guiding light he was in the novel. One no longer has the feeling that his presence is essential in the lives of most of the characters. He now just hovers about at a distance. Singer's tragedy--the fact that he never really...