Word: deafness
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...always more, a deeper level to spot and land on, like a plane swooping down from bright white and blue into a heavy snow. People like Joe Kraft play Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist all their lives--they cannot help themselves--requesting "more" where others are horrified by, or are deaf to, or fear, or pretend not to recognize the word. The more that is sought is a statement of innocence; one believes in his heart that enlightenment will be cheering, though experience proves that more often it is punishing. Still the optimistic pursuit continues, the pursuer buoyed every morning...
...idealistic teacher. The unresponsive institution. The brave deaf children struggling to overcome their handicap. The particularly difficult case. The breakthrough. The setbacks. The ultimate triumph. Children of a Lesser God omits nothing from the formula that guarantees a work to be routinely moving...
Training is key. Young@Heart isn't for the tone deaf or the wimpy. Members must audition, although some are making their stage debut, and they must be reasonably hearty to endure long rehearsals, even longer plane rides and, of course, the performances. For the show always goes on. As the group members sing in one of their most popular numbers, Forever Young, by the legendary Dylan, "Be courageous and be brave,/ And in my heart you'll always stay,/ Forever young, forever young, forever young." That's exactly what they intend...
...firestorm for a corset. She returned to New York City, and in 1958 became a Broadway star as the spirited Gittel in William Gibson's Two for the Seesaw. The next year she found her great role, as Annie Sullivan, the half-blind teacher of the blind and deaf Helen Keller, in Gibson's The Miracle Worker. Bancroft's ferocity, starkly colliding and beautifully meshing with Patty Duke's as Helen, made the play (and the 1962 film) a pure, intense parable of love. As Mrs. Robinson sucked life out of her prey, Annie forced life into Helen's isolated...
...Google’s promises seem to have fallen on deaf ears in Europe, where libraries joined forces earlier this winter to resist the print project for a different reason...