Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...silent players were participating in a workshop--the first of its kind at Harvard--designed to show hearing people what it's like to be deaf...
...government and in marriages like his own. As an exemplar of the new South, he has dealt with blacks and gays, as well as good ole boys and businessmen, on a daily basis with mutual respect. And unlike any other prominent Democrat since Jimmy Carter, he is not tone deaf to the religious chords that can help bind American society. Not only does he know how to clap on the back-beat of gospel hymns, he also draws unabashed strength from his Baptist upbringing...
...coronary thrombosis at 63, Brideshead Revisited (published in 1945) and the Sword of Honour trilogy (completed in 1961) had sealed his reputation as one of the century's great masters of English prose. They had also established him as an elitist, antiquarian crank who was both literally and figuratively deaf to a modern world of "plastics, Picasso, sunbathing and jazz" that he found as alienating as prison...
...statute, which bans discrimination against those who are blind, deaf, mentally retarded, hiv positive, physically impaired or have cancer or epilepsy, is designed to help more than 10 million Americans move into the mainstream of the working world. "This is the 20th century Emancipation Proclamation for people with disabilities," says Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, the law's chief sponsor...
...inner narrative an evocation of growing up and facing down the everyday demons of adult life. Unlike the bizarre Ken Russell film, the narrative reshaped for La Jolla by McAnuff and composer- lyricist Pete Townshend has an essential innocence, maybe even an excess of optimism. The title character, apparently deaf and blind from boyhood, is in fact rendered autistic by seeing his father shoot his mother's lover -- an infidelity made less sordid by the fact that the father, a World War II airman, had been reported dead. Over the years the boy is sexually molested by an uncle, battered...