Word: deafness
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Thursday, August 14 NET PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9:30 p.m.).* "The National Theater of the Deaf, Encore" presents talented actors who perform entirely in sign language a Kabuki drama and Anton Chekhov's monologue "On the Harmfulness of Tobacco...
...deaf old porter Ferapont is in the capable hands of James Greene, who is obliged to wear shabby or worn-out clothing and whose figures stick through holes in his black mittens. He carries out his menial chores without complaint. Michael Parish and Tom Klunis do yeoman service in small straightforward roles of lieutenants Fedotik and Rode...
...holdings. After he became Governor in 1967, his friendliness to oil companies gave him a reputation for putting industrial development before everything else - a reputation that was enhanced when he freely scorned "conservation for conservation's sake." At the Senate hearings preceding his confirmation, Hickel even seemed deaf to the fact that industrial pollution threatens not only trees and lakes but man himself...
When Britain's King George III died in 1820, he was blind, deaf and apparently mad. His physicians, limited in their medical knowledge and hindered by protocol in examining their royal patient (they could not inquire how he felt unless he spoke to them first), had long since concluded that the King was "under an entire alienation of mind." George III went down in history as the mad monarch, a judgment accepted by generations of historians and buttressed by psychiatric studies...
...Trinity Church. He has played for museums and colleges, women's clubs and love-ins. He gives many concerts in hospitals, prisons and schools for handicapped children, where his music often has a therapeutic effect. When he played for the children of a school for the deaf in Los Angeles, they reacted with smiles, laughter and expressions of awe, calling him back for two encores. In ways that are not fully understood by doctors, the emotional response to his primal sounds-the musical equivalent of finger painting-has even aided retarded children in learning to sing...