Word: deafness
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...matchmaking sector of Absolute Mind that the two should enjoy so few opportunities for collaboration. But conuptial beds are hard to come by for children of hostile houses, particularly when the houses in question behave as if they had never heard of each other. And what houses are more deaf to each other than the one with the monopoly on dialectical thought and the one with its valuables stored in the parlors of the past two centuries...
...doomed by the fierce opposition of white suburbanites, Deffet argues, then there should be federal housing subsidies paid directly to the poor to allow them to compete with everyone else for available private housing. Many of Deffet's industry colleagues over the years have either turned a deaf ear or become angry at his views. Now developers generally tend to listen to Deffet because of his track record. "The only way to be a spokesman," he says, "is to show people that you are successful...
...President Nixon is blind and deaf to the evil which permeates his administration, the American people are not. The day-by-day developments of the scandal, while not all screaming banner-headline material, suggest an underlying insidiousness that the President will be unable to ignore when public hearings begin next Tuesday...
...energy seemed illimitable. In his last years, Melchior continued to hunt big game in Africa, served as international president of the Danish Royal Guard, and last fall conducted the orchestra at the San Francisco Opera's 50th anniversary concert. He grew as deaf as Beethoven, but his passion for music was not impaired, nor his concern. A sizable portion of his time was devoted to administering the Heldentenor Foundation, which he established in 1968 to encourage new talent in an annual competition...
...Union was disappointed when students came back to school in September. Its demands appeared to fall on deaf ears, and attendance at Union meetings dwindled to 20 to 30 from the 300 to 500 peaks of the preceding Spring. Although fearing the worst, the Union ran a slate of candidates for the student positions on the Commission and another body, the Committee on Graduate Education. But even though GSAS students would not come to Union meetings, a surprising amount of residual support for the organization remained. Its slate swept to victory, and Union members happily took seats...