Word: deafness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ehrenreich, public service is inherently political. Activism goes "part and parcel" with community work, she says. "If the deaf committee held a really to support a bill in Congress, no one would think twice about it. But if the homeless committee did the same thing, there would be an uproar. Why is one more political than the other?" Ehrenreich says...
...THERAPY CENTER IN NEW YORK CITY, the saddest child brought in one morning is three-year-old Felicia, a small bundle of bones in a pink dress, whose plastic hearing aids keep falling off, tangling with her gold earrings. She is ( deaf, and doctors are not sure how much she can see. She functions at the capacity of a four-month-old. Like a rag doll, she can neither sit nor stand by herself: her trunk is too weak and her legs are too stiff. A therapist massages and bends the little girl's legs, trying to make her relax...
...through rational discourse. Rather than throwing around the charge of PC to discredit the position of their opponents, a practice that will eventually begin to backfire, conservatives and moderates must seek to destroy the icons of the PC crowd. Just as in literature, "crying wolf" will only result in deaf ears when the Harvard community needs to be alerted to true examples of "political correctness...
Desperately poor and also disabled (she is deaf and cannot speak), Jenny (Rudi Davies) is the only character in the film who is actually worthy of this exquisitely enigmatic art. For as she finally puts it in a note, it speaks to her, and despite her limitations, she can hear what it is saying. To complete the film's moral balance, she has a brother who is the only figure totally insensate to the value, financial or spiritual, of the sculpture. To him it's just something to try to fence for a few pounds sterling and toss...
Every artist needs some source of inspiration. Max Ernst, the lyric German subversive who was born 100 years ago, had one that carried him through most of his life. He hated his father, a pious Catholic art teacher who worked in a school for deaf and mute children in a small forest town south of Cologne. Indeed, Ernst wanted to kill Papa and what he thought he represented: the authority of age, religion, the state and the image...