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...honest about that version of me, which is not always an attractive young man; it’s a brutal and unforgiving space which he inhabits. And that’s something that should be taught, but when my father tried to teach me that lesson, it fell on deaf ears. THC: Did you have any other autobiographies in mind when you were writing yours? AS: I was writing my own book, and if I had any other writers in mind, it was to write something unlike the books they had written, even though I admired them. THC: Any authors...
...ironic that your portrait of Natalya Dmitruk, the courageous translator and signer to the deaf for the Ukrainian state-run television station ut-1, included a reference to her parents as "deaf mute." Deaf people are just that: deaf. The erroneous and condescending term deaf mute went out in the 1950s. Please don't revive it. Robbin Battison Stockholm...
...makes it easy to forget that the great composer was a person with very real human needs, desires, and failings—he scrounged for money, relished fame and attention, and lusted after women. Morris weaves together the music with the life and gives us members of the tone-deaf public a clear glimpse into the trials and turmoil that go into making genius...
...before (or at least seen the unspeakably horrible Starz movie network commercial that uses it), the music is undeniably majestic. Morris writes that “for the rest of the century, symphonic composers would struggle in vain to write anything that sounded bigger.” Beethoven, deaf and facing the orchestra, did not realize the audience was enthusiastically clapping until a teenage soprano turned him around...
...embrace the soul in one another, the soul of life. They appreciate something that treats race, gender and religion as being as incidental as the clothes we wear. Marsalis is right on the mark. Perhaps if enough people speak out, as he has, they might pierce the tone-deaf arrogance of the powerful. Peter Piaskoski Milwaukee...