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...only when activists’ appeals fall on deaf ears that we take our campaign into the streets or Mass. Hall. Direct action and civil disobedience are tactics with long and storied histories in this University, dating back to Henry David Thoreau, Class of 1837, and W.E.B. Dubois, Class of 1890, but they are always tactics of last resort...
...Susan’s kids. The Moroccan boys who fired on the bus during a deadly game of sibling one-upmanship can’t justify their actions to their parents or the provincial police who hunt them. Iñárritu also introduces us to Chieko, the deaf-mute Japanese teenager whose absurdly tangential connection to the events in Morocco inexplicably serves as the movie’s narrative climax. Luckily, Iñárritu’s characters don’t have to talk much. Blanchett, as the wounded tourist, doesn?...
...case you?re wondering, Jane is not the Hollywood actress who married and divorced Ronald Reagan and won an Oscar for playing a deaf-mute. That was Jane Wyman. Our Jane was married to the same man, businessman Edgar Ward, until his death in 2000, one day short of their 65th wedding anniversary. Her career spanned just about that length, from Broadway in the early '30s to a last TV movie role in 1996. The year before our first dinner, she had played Mr. Spock?s human mother in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home; and she had a recurring...
That's overstating the case, but Kierkegaard's description of the "dizziness of freedom"--and the agony of choice--does seem relevant. "It's the temptation of assimilation," says a Gallaudet trustee. "There's a lure, you know: Don't be deaf. Get an implant. Don't learn sign language. Lip-read. Become...
...Morocco a little peasant boy aims a rifle, newly acquired by his father, at a tourist bus and grievously wounds a woman dozing by one of its windows. In Tokyo an adolescent girl, puzzled and angry over her mother's suicide (and a deaf-mute as well), bedevils her father and at the same time blatantly asserts her confused but flaming sexual needs. In San Diego a Mexican woman tends two Anglo children she deeply loves while their parents are on holiday, but when her own son needs her, she puts her charges in jeopardy. Unable to find someone...