Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hundred Years, a kernel of reality lies in the Patriarch's story. Garcia Marquez says that he learned everything he could about actual dictators, then forgot it all in order to write the novel. The Patriarch ages, contemptibly deaf and senile, gradually cut off from authority by bureaucrats who preserve him as a useful relic. He caricatures Franco propped up by his bodyguards in motorcades and at podiums, or the pathetic fake photograph of Mao swimming in the Yangtze River. His solitariness is the loneliness of power taken to its extreme and most human degree...
WHEN DUTY CALLS, Frederic follows. Duty can be a harsh taskmaster, and in The Pirates of Penzance her demands contravene both conventional Victorian morality and the urgings of the heart. But what is poor Frederic to do? Given a half-deaf nursemaid who apprentices him to a pirate instead of a pilot until he is 21 years of age and a birthday which falls with inconvenient quadrennial regularity on Leap Day, he acts as any Gilbert and Sullivan character worth his salt is bound to: he follows every absurd proposition out to its invariably illogical conclusion...
...Conway-are not listed in London University records and are unknown to 18 of Burt's closest colleagues. The revelation is crucial: the two women were presumably Burt's field investigators on the twin research at a time when the psychologist was becoming feeble and deaf. It thus seems increasingly possible that the women never existed, that their investigations were never carried out and that Burt invented them and their reports...
These students are working with the Environmental Health and Safety Committee at Harvard to investigate the possibilities of improving campus facilities for blind, deaf and physically handicapped students...
Yale Economist Richard Cooper, 42, noted that "on the admittedly few occasions when the Administration has put forward very far-reaching, very far-sighted and innovative proposals, they have just fallen on. completely deaf ears. Yet when George Marshall made what was an extremely modest statement at Harvard in 1947, it had far-reaching consequences. Why? Because there was somebody ready to receive what he had to say. Part of that has to do with skills of management...