Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...carpet. Downstairs, as Chairman of the Board, he has a sturdy stride and an imperious gaze. He knows his place all too well. He believes it his job to hear nothing while above, to surrender to no soft impulse when below. That is why Stevens was deaf to the nasty political business that took place in the drawing rooms and why he was blind to the fuller life he might have shared with the flinty housekeeper, Miss Kenton...
Being morally ambivalent does not mean withholding moral judgment. It means acknowledging that there is a very fine line between celebrating homosexuality as difference and condemning it to deviancy. It might help in this case to compare homosexuality to deafness. Homosexuals and deaf people are capable of sharing friendships and love with their heterosexual and hearing counterparts. But the fundamental differences in experience can make those relationships more difficult to achieve, and perhaps impossible to fulfill...
...most recent attack left Gelernter deaf inone ear, blind in one eye, missing a part of hisright hand and wounded in the chest...
First, there's the old piano teacher who's so deaf he applauds one of the daughters' horrific renditions of Mozart. Music geek...
...LEADING BRITISH POETS appeared together on a platform at Hull University. One was Ted Hughes, the widower of Sylvia Plath: intense, leather- jacketed, trailing a romantic aura. The other was Philip Larkin, an overweight, bald, bespectacled and partly deaf figure in a dark suit who later described himself as providing the "sophisticated, insincere, effete, and gold-watch-chained alternative...