Word: deafness
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...improve relations with Washington, which are at a distressingly low level." On the same theme, Post Columnist Meir Mer-hav predicted: "There will be a gradual disengagement, not between us and the Arabs, but between the U.S. and Israel. Formerly open doors will become closed, listening ears will turn deaf, and warm sympathy will become icy scrutiny...
...humor salvages their plight. Some of it is sheer vaudevillian antics - Dorothea doing body-wrenching calisthenics in her negligee, the half-deaf Bodey fidding with her hearing aid and trying to camouflage it with an outlandish flower, or Miss Gluck (Barbara Tarbuck), on whom coffee acts as an emetic, rushing to the bathroom to throw up. But more of the comedy springs from Williams' absurdist juxtapositions and mocking putdowns...
...speaking with a person who is hard of hearing, it might be advisable to ask what he finds most audible. Talking with food, gum or a cigarette in your mouth makes it very difficult for another person to read your lips. If you are addressing a deaf person, it is polite to face him and not his interpreter...
...statement also turns a deaf ear to the feelings of a large segment of the student body. That treatment, of course, comes as no surprise, yet in the wake of this week's large and peaceful demonstrations, some consideration and dialogue with those students would seem only fair. The uncommunicative and vaguely paranoid stance adopted by the University throughout this week shows that Harvard is both afraid of and unwilling to listen to its own no-longer-docile students...
...report, the ACSR does little more than present the alternatives the Corporation may choose to adopt in dealing with portfolio companies operating in South Africa. By refusing to urge Harvard to help speed the withdrawal of these companies from South Africa, the committee turns a deaf ear on the will of the majority of Harvard's undergraduates--a will clearly expressed through a variety of petitions, demonstrations, House, freshman and organizational votes. Harvard students are joined in their demands by a host of national and international groups, ranging from the NAACP to the Congressional Black Caucus to the U.N. General...