Word: deafness
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...Subway Samaritan A man slumps in a doorway and lies there unattended as pedestrians scurry past. A child is beaten unconscious while residents in adjoining apartments turn a deaf ear to his shrieks. Six years ago, Kitty Genovese, 28, was stabbed to death in New York City while 38 of her neighbors, roused by her screams, watched or listened and did nothing. Such incidents feed the popular notion, especially in big cities, that the average citizen is not prepared to go to the aid of his fellow...
...open admissions policy at urban public colleges: "You can't discriminate on 'prior preparation' grounds any more than on economic grounds." She feels that "our country is one human family" that ought to teach the poor and culturally deprived as eagerly as it does the deaf or blind. By "culturally deprived," she means not only Negroes and Puerto Ricans but also whites who are deprived of the opportunity to learn about non-Western culture...
Like Samuel Beckett, whose name is often coupled with his own as an influential modern writer, Borges enjoys a reputation based upon a very slender body of work. Unlike the reticent, reclusive Beckett, however, Borges is personally accessible. Though he is 70, and deaf in one ear, in addition to being blind, he willingly talks about himself, his work and the world. In recent weeks, he has been drawing standing-room-only audiences on a speaking tour of U.S. campuses. The visit coincided with the publication of the first English translation of The Book of Imaginary Beings. An alphabetically arranged...
When the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (A.S.C.A.P.) decided to celebrate Rudolf Friml's 90th birthday with a grand to-do at Manhattan's Shubert Theater, they couldn't locate him: he was on a concert tour in Europe. Deaf but spry, his hair still red, his piano playing still powerful, Friml gives his Chinese wife Kay, 56, credit for his fitness: "Some mornings I get up and she walks on my back." During the A.S.C.A.P. tribute, a chorus and soloists sang his hits, and Ogden Nash reminisced...
...both exceed the volume that most experts believe will impair hearing. In some offices, the constant staccato of typewriters and calculators is so nerve-racking that employees quit after a short time on the job. (New York's First National City Bank neatly resolved that problem by hiring deaf clerical help in its check-processing department.) City streets, already filled with roaring trucks and buses, are made intolerable by the added din of construction. Even when people sleep, they hear and react to noise, which makes them tired, tense and irritable in the morning...