Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That chilling explanation helped, but it was many more such conversations before James truly understood, shortly before his death. It wasn't that he was dumb; it was that he was deaf...
...John Franklin and all the members of his British navy Arctic expedition, sent to find the Northwest Passage. Vollmann relates that event to a glum romance in present time between one of the author's fictional alter egos, whom he calls Captain Subzero, and a young, deaf Inuit woman named Reepah. Vollmann insists at length that Subzero, an & Arctic tourist who, as Vollmann himself did, makes a two-week trek to the north magnetic pole, is a modern counterpart of Franklin. Further and sillier, he imagines that Reepah bears some resemblance (or shows some useful contrast) to Franklin's wife...
...government remains deaf. The information Superhighway must go no, bulldozing anything in its path. The NSA believes that national security is the highest priority for any country, and even privacy must be sacrificed for its cause...
Consider Evelyn Glennie, a small, vivacious Scotswoman who has been "profoundly deaf" since she was 12. Glennie is a full-time percussion soloist -- the only one in the classical field -- and one of today's brightest young stars on any instrument. "People have the wrong idea about deafness," says Glennie, 28, currently in the midst of an American concert tour that is taking her to Cincinnati, Washington and Cleveland. "They think you live in a world of total silence, but that isn't the way it works...
Although she is affiliated with some 40 organizations for the deaf in Britain, Glennie downplays discussion of her charity work; she would rather be known as a role model for all young musicians, not just young deaf people. And model she is. She performs some 120 concerts a year, a number the newlywed Glennie would prefer to reduce in order to spend more time at home near Cambridge with her husband, Greg Malcangi, a recording engineer. The flying Scot also has been the subject of two British and one American TV documentaries and even wrote an autobiography...