Word: deafness
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...complaint registered last week with the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Robert S. Menchel, who is hearing-impaired, said the ART discriminates because it does not regularly present interpreted performances for members of the deaf community...
Odyssey of a Black Deaf Man--by CarlMoore. Boston Public Library, Copley Square,Boston. Thursday, Feb. 27, 6:30 p.m. Free...
...dimensional images and easy stereotypes are the currency of our dealings with classical music and classical musicians. Mozart is the boy prodigy; Beethoven, the tormented, deaf visionary; Bach the obscure wigged fellow who wrote that neat organ piece they play in horror flicks. In the same vein, Joseph Haydn is remembered as the long-lived "Father of the Symphony" who also penned the great oratorios "The Seasons" and "The Creation. "Yet Haydn's vocal works display a variety that challenges the preconceived notions. Haydn, despite his reputation, was a master of many genres...
Anderson credited his friends and his stubbornness and his faith, as practiced in their private sanctuary, the Church of the Locked Door. Thomas Sutherland taught him French; he taught the others the sign alphabet for the deaf so they could communicate when they were not allowed to speak. It was Anderson who made the tinfoil chess pieces, the Scrabble games, the Monopoly set. In a sense, as the longest held and best known, Anderson had become a symbol for all the captives, for the 17 Americans who were taken -- the three who died, the 13 others who have retrieved their...
...knew. He once referred to Tokyo's envoys as "pissants." Japan's ambassador, Kichisaburo Nomura, 64, a one-eyed retired admiral and former Foreign Minister, was considered a moderate and so was mistrusted in Tokyo. It did not help that Hull had a speech difficulty, while Nomura was partially deaf...