Word: deafness
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...metaphor for modern, urban man. The taxi driver will go anywhere for money, and is forced to see everything, all the degredation and cruelty men are capable of, but always with the understanding that he will remain outside, uninvolved and untouched. This is the hack's code: be deaf and you will hear everything; be blind and you will see everything. Travis does eventually learn the rules, but only after one last, desperate, misunderstood attempt to remake the world in his image...
...their persuasiveness and intelligence these arguments have fallen on deaf ears. Until now, the State Department has shown no sympathy or wish for "dialogue" with the PC. In fact, their actions display an attitude closer to contempt. This past fall, for instance, several prominent members of the PC were denied entry into the U.S. under an archaic, seldom-used anti-Communist statute. This minor act of hostility was followed by an even stiffer slap in the face as neo-Fascist Giorgio Almirante, who is among the most reactionary politicians in Italy, paraded around Capitol Hill talking with Congressional leaders. Incidentally...
...people in the meeting room of the Highpoint Motor Inn, but 2,500 turned up, so the feisty Alabama Governor simply went through his routine twice-an impressive performance for a man of 56 who is confined to a wheelchair, totally paralyzed from the waist down and partly deaf. It was vintage Wallace, and the crowd loved...
Korda dispenses breezy bits of office one-upmanship (jam a visitor's chair into a small space to make him feel powerless, speak softly to an elderly rival -it may make him think he is going deaf). Ringer's book is a heady parable of the worm (himself) who turned predator and earned a spectacular $849,901 in a single year of real estate wheeling and dealing. Despite the differences in style, the message is the same: death will come soon; meanwhile, there is nothing left to believe in but success and power in a cruel world...
...throws himself on Ratched and comes very close to strangling her. A guard knocks him out just in time, though, and he's sent off for a lobotomy. Finally the big Indian (who's really been taking "the system" for a ride all along and simply pretending to be deaf and dumb) smothers him quietly in the night...