Word: deaf
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David Hays '52, founder of the National Theatre of the Deaf and a Broadway set designer, will receive the 1999 Harvard Arts Medal...
Hays' credits include directing the National Theatre of the Deaf until 1996. The Theatre features an acting company composed of deaf and hearing actors. Their shows combine sign language and spoken words...
...Germans, he wrote acerbically, could not possibly pay what the victors were demanding. Calling Wilson a "blind, deaf Don Quixote" and Clemenceau a xenophobe with "one illusion--France, and one disillusion--mankind" (and only at the last moment scratching the purple prose he had reserved for Lloyd George: "this goat-footed bard, this half-human visitor to our age from the hag-ridden magic and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity"), an outraged Keynes prophesied that the reparations would keep Germany impoverished and ultimately threaten all Europe...
...Eloise Austin and Joanna Hootnick, youuuuu're up!" We slunk up to the microphone and looked at our shoelaces while our two devoted Harvard fans whistled and heckled. We both gave each other a "what-the-hell-do-we-have-to-lose" glance and busted out with our tone-deaf version of "Build Me up Buttercup," complete with shoop-shoop arm motion...
...Alcohol. Mind-expanding drugs. Learn how to say all of these words in sign language at PBH's American Sign Language Classes for beginners. Sponsored by the Committee on Deaf Awareness. Mondays 8-9 p.m. and Thursdays 6-7. For more information, contact ken@digitas.harvard.edu...