Word: deafness
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state, And trouble deaf heaven with...
...steel-and-glass Palace of Congresses. A perfunctory five-minute session before midnight just barely met the Nov. 11 deadline for opening the meeting. Next day, Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suarez made a dispirited opening address. Said Suarez: "Sometimes it seems we are engaged in a dialogue of the deaf...
...Found-Land. In the committee-room that the sex-scandal investigators have temporarily vacated, an elderly and a youthful Home Office bureaucrat deliver monologues to each other that epitomize stereotypical visions of England and America. The break is a welcome one. Keith Rogal as Bernard-- the senescent and near-deaf senior officer whose droning, endless tale of a five-pound bet with Lloyd George is by far the evening's funniest sequence-- turns hesitation into a form of comic torture, and uses stock mannerisms of old age to excellent effect...
...case arises from the University of Texas' appeal of a lower court's ruling that the university, under the 1973 Rehabilitation Act, must pay for the classroom interpreter of a deaf student, Walter Canenisch...
Crooks said that there is only one deaf student at the present who requires an interpreter in class...