Word: deafness
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...Democrats' Cassandra strategy could fall on deaf ears, or even backfire...
Reagan took pains to cool his rhetoric toward the U.S.S.R., despite continuing provocation from Moscow. Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko stepped up the war of words with the U.S., telling young Soviet servicemen at a Kremlin ceremony that they had to be prepared to deal with "political forces that are deaf to good will and the arguments of reason." The Kremlin even launched a campaign to discredit the Normandy invasion, outrageously contending that it had been botched, while the war was actually won on the Eastern front. Pravda accused Reagan personally of going to the anniversary ceremonies "to exploit the glory...
...came in the way Moscow was handling the case of Andrei Sakharov, intellectual leader of the besieged Soviet dissident movement. The Nobel Peace Prize recipient began a hunger strike on May 2 to secure permission for his ailing wife Yelena Bonner to travel abroad for medical treatment. Turning a deaf ear to a growing chorus of international protests and inquiries, the Soviets refused to give any details on Sakharov's health and whereabouts. Said a top Washington diplomat: "They are not capable of taking any positive steps, so they are turning inward and isolating themselves. It is leadership...
...such criticisms inevitably fall on deaf ears. They are not trying to take an objective tone, the Sparts will tell you. They are about the formulation of revolutionary politics. One paragraph from "Young Spartacus" summarizes their political philosophy...
...theater folk overwhelmingly dispute his claim that Shakespeare is losing popularity. On American campuses, at any rate, interest has never been higher. As for the merits of Rowse's specific alterations, John Andrews, director of academic programs for the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, says: "He is tone deaf, it seems to me. He has no sense of the music of verse." Al though Rowse usually retains the rhythm of Shakespeare's lines, some of his substitutions change it altogether. "We'll have no Cupid hoodwink'd with a scarf," says Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet...