Word: deafness
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Both Fenta and Davis are clinically deaf...
Fenta, originally from Ethiopia, has used sign language to communicate ever since he attended Gallaudet College, a liberal arts school for the deaf in Washington D.C. Now in his second year at Harvard, he uses an interpreter, paid for by the University, in all of his classes...
...College has also begun providing interpreters for deaf students, and Braille-reading machines have been made available to visually-impaired students. There is now even a lounge for disabled students in the basement of Lamont Library...
Unfortunately, Waugh's argument against rating books according to their ideology fell on deaf ears, including his own. He praised J.F. Powers' Prince of Darkness in parochial terms: "The book is Catholic. Mr. Powers has a full philosophy with which to oppose the follies of his age and nation." A novel by Antonia White spurred him to greater extravagance: ";She knows that man is in the world for quite another purpose than teaching Greek or winning the war or marrying well or even writing admirable novels. He is here to love and serve God, and any portrayal...
...Secret Friend, a TV movie to be aired on CBS this winter. In an unusual bit of crosscasting, he plays a gorilla. She plays a scientist who teaches him to communicate in sign language, which comes in handy when the primate is eventually befriended by a young deaf boy (portrayed by Sean Gerlis, 12, who is deaf in real life too). Fletcher figures there was no way to avoid being upstaged. Says she: "I mean, you put together an innocent little child's face and an animal acting like a human, and they're irresistible...