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Salonga is described by supporters as one of the few figures who might be able to bridge the gap between moderates and radicals in the opposition, a division that has long weakened the anti-Marcos effort. Blind in one eye, deaf in one ear and carrying 100 pieces of shrapnel in his body as the legacy of a political bombing in 1971, Salonga has denied any intention of running in the next presidential election, due in 1987, unless he is drafted. Still, his modesty is usually discounted and his name included on the increasingly crowded list of would-be candidates...
...decade after Svetlana left Taliesin West, she tried to make a fresh start in several towns in California and New Jersey, only to rebuff the welcome she found. After deciding to break up a friendship with a distinguished intellectual, she wrote to him, "You are deaf, stupid. You are doomed. You are a failure. I pity you. I despise you." In other letters she wished people dead. Of an elderly lady who, Svetlana thought, had crossed her, she wrote, "I hope she will not be with us too long." To British Author Malcolm Muggeridge, a deeply religious...
Grant our Supreme-Court justices long lives, Lord, but barring that, grant the president, as he selects new justices, the wisdom of Solomon and, to protect against entreaties from Jerry Falwell, a deaf right...
...said, "'A deaf right ear,' Mr. President." (Good Lord, but Thou doth work quickly...
...waters, Wanda. As your local representative of the uptrodden gender, I frankly had no idea that cheerfulness was a sexist plot. If I correctly recall our last 42 arguments, you have been telling me that men not only have trouble expressing their feelings, they may even be emotionally tone deaf. Wouldn't it be logical for you to argue that women , smile more because they are less blocked emotionally, not because niceness is a symbol of servitude...