Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...read the article, I pictured myself as having been a Charlie O. during air flights, but several of my fellow passengers also opened up. Perhaps we never had an "authentic dialogue" but an alternating series of monologues that fell on deaf ears. Ears deaf because of the secure knowledge that the fellow passenger would probably never cross paths with you again. For the moment you were together, going the same place. Complete reticence would be as absurd as complete loquacity in such a situation...
...MAJORITY IS NOT SILENT-THE GOVERNMENT IS DEAF...
Recent pleas for the Corporation to relieve the burden of the Faculty deficit by reducing its capital endowment will surely fall on deaf ears. Educational and other non-profit trusts and foundations are loathe to take such a step. However, much the same result could be achieved by better management of Harvard's endowment assets...
...clever, exuberant and expressive chap, even if friends and neighbors find him stolid, sullen and introverted. Sudden notification that this same fellow is in reality a Taurusstubborn, systematic, kindhearted and musicalis sure to prove unsettling, particularly when he appears decidedly sloppy, mean and congenitally tone-deaf...
When people have been deaf since birth, they often cannot reproduce speech because they have never heard sounds. To help them learn to speak, Ohio State University's Bio-Medical Engineering Coordinating Committee has developed a device called a visual vocoder that translates sounds into patterns of light. Soon to be used to teach children at a state school for the deaf, the machine features a display board containing 40 vertical rows of twelve lights each. Words spoken by a teacher into a microphone are converted into lights that march across the board from right to left, forming...