Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...County Cork man himself, Trevor has spread an eery Irish mist over the shabby Dublin back street where O'Neill's Hotel stands in bewitched semi-ruin. On the top floor lives the proprietor, Mrs. Sinnott, at 91 a legendary personage. Half-Irish, half-Venetian and a deaf-mute, Mrs. Sinnott is an almost mystical presence. The members of her family and the orphans she has collected about her over the years-mostly the lost and the losers-make their pilgrimages to her room and scribble confessions into the red exercise books through which she communicates...
...Subway Samaritan A man slumps in a doorway and lies there unattended as pedestrians scurry past. A child is beaten unconscious while residents in adjoining apartments turn a deaf ear to his shrieks. Six years ago, Kitty Genovese, 28, was stabbed to death in New York City while 38 of her neighbors, roused by her screams, watched or listened and did nothing. Such incidents feed the popular notion, especially in big cities, that the average citizen is not prepared to go to the aid of his fellow...
...open admissions policy at urban public colleges: "You can't discriminate on 'prior preparation' grounds any more than on economic grounds." She feels that "our country is one human family" that ought to teach the poor and culturally deprived as eagerly as it does the deaf or blind. By "culturally deprived," she means not only Negroes and Puerto Ricans but also whites who are deprived of the opportunity to learn about non-Western culture...
Like Samuel Beckett, whose name is often coupled with his own as an influential modern writer, Borges enjoys a reputation based upon a very slender body of work. Unlike the reticent, reclusive Beckett, however, Borges is personally accessible. Though he is 70, and deaf in one ear, in addition to being blind, he willingly talks about himself, his work and the world. In recent weeks, he has been drawing standing-room-only audiences on a speaking tour of U.S. campuses. The visit coincided with the publication of the first English translation of The Book of Imaginary Beings. An alphabetically arranged...