Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slap was only one of many this year, as Harvard continually turned a deaf ear to students' concerns. This tendency to ignore student concerns was exemplified in the University's refusal to substantially improve campus security...
...mother who raised her was demonstratively sinking into madness. Given the bizarre facts of her conception, the heroine has - created for herself a special identity: "I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes." And her mission in life is clear, at least to her: "I make myself deaf to the pleas of the unborn. As many as my father brought into existence, I will keep...
...language skills. Thus in many local courts, translation may be a free-lance project for the secretary who speaks a little French or a favor requested from a relative of the defendant. "A family member is the worst person you can use," says Maureen Dunn, an interpreter for the deaf. "They have their own side of the story, and they add and omit things." Besides, interpretation is a sophisticated art. It demands not only a broad vocabulary and instant recall but also the ability to reproduce tone and nuance and a good working knowledge of street slang. "Most people believe...
Among the few modern concert performers whom even the tone-deaf have heard of, none is more intriguing than the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould -- not only because of his electrifying reinventions of Bach's Goldberg Variations, among other pieces, but also because of the strikingly eccentric artistic creation that was his life. Who could forget the singular genius who shuffled about on summer days swathed in mufflers and overcoats (because of his hypochondria), and in concerts sat himself down on a pygmy chair and proceeded to sigh, groan, sing and wave his hands about as he played? Who could resist...
...vacationing family meets a boy in the Blue Ridge Mountains willing to take a group snapshot. He turns out to be a deaf-mute astrological visionary. High up in the Smokies, the menopausal mother of the family keeps hearing a baby crying out in the woods. After she leaves the tent, the audience hears it too. The family tumbles into its car outside a diner near Amarillo, Texas, and resumes squabbling, only this time father and daughter swap roles and accustomed dialogue, and so do mother and son. The elders squeak about needing a bathroom break. The children trade curses...