Word: deafness
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...former times) ever dull his tart, epigrammatic wit. Conductors, critics and colleagues regularly felt its sting. Stravinsky once said of Leopold Stokowski that "he must have spent an hour a day trying to find the perfect bisexual hairdo." He called New Yorker Music Critic Winthrop Sargeant "W.S. Deaf." Of a new Gian Carlo Menotti opera, he said, "It is 'farther out' than anything I've seen in a decade; in the wrong direction, of course." He also took on broader targets. The technology of today's recording engineers, he complained, removed natural sound and human errors...
...hope that I need not. It is that hope which leads me to write these words to those within the Harvard community who have the means to defend my rights, which are the rights of all. I turn to them in the belief that they will not be deaf to appeals made in the name of peace, of freedom and indeed of life itself. The peace of the Harvard community is at stake, for should it not act and act firmly then Harvard shall become a place in which only those can thrive who promote their beliefs with violence...
...Nixon stance by its very neglect, its lowering of expectations, may have contributed to forcing the black movement both in on itself and outward along new paths. Following the legal civil rights victories of the past two decades, blacks would have struck out in those directions anyway; the deaf ear in Washington simply accelerated their push into the political and economic arena, where they are rapidly learning how to use the system for-and occasionally against-itself. Indeed, the movement today may well be more confident, more pragmatic, more tough-minded and more sophisticated than ever before. "There...
...occasion he discerned "the beginning of wisdom in inter-racial contact", and sought-ever so indefatigably-to encompass "broader cooperation with the white rulers of the world," offering a chance for peaceful development of black peoples, and an avoidance of catastrophic race war. If only the whites, "the deaf and dumb masters of the world," could recognize that such cooperation with blacks on the bases of equality is in their own interests . . . This heritage can still be seen in the NAACP of which he was a founder-member. He may have been wrong in this belief in inter-racial cooperation...
...live, deaf to the land beneath us, Ten steps away no one hears our speeches...