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Even in this limited circle, the effect of the document is awesome. Everyone who reads it is filled with in explicable joy. Miracles begin to happen. While reading the text a lame girl loses her affliction, and a deaf man looks up from the pages amazed - suddenly he can hear again. Even the project's public relations man, a worldly type who thinks of God as "some big bag of ooze in the sky," is seized with faith...
...What?" asked my grandmother, who's a little deaf...
...Vernon, M. Fifty years of research on the intelligence of deaf and hard-of-hearing children: A review of literature and discussion of implication. Journal of Rehabilitation of the Deal...
Meanwhile she lives in her new house in Malibu with her daughter, a young driver-helper, a maid, a fox terrier, a large mongrel and a deaf cat. She eats health foods ("Our whole society is built around the dining table," she complains over alfalfa sprouts and carrot juice) and spends a lot of time watching the tide-and her psyche. Starting with her breakthrough in B. & C. & T. & A., she recalls, "people kept saying, 'Wow! You're a star. You must really be happy,' and I kept asking myself, 'If it's so great...
...stock Feydeau device is a shady hotel where the liaisons are to be consummated in a room simultaneously booked to two or three couples. There is inevitably a physical defect that Feydeau manages to make howlingly funny rather than mockingly cruel. This time there is a stone-deaf lady (Helen Burns), who is being taken to Carmen for a treat, after which her medical-officer husband (Tony Van Bridge) intends to mix her a sleeping potion to celebrate the couple's 25th wedding anniversary. There is always a foreign couple (Swedish, in this case) who come in for some...