Word: deafness
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Upstairs, on the top floor, the Nabokovs' apartment is a warren of small rooms. Directly below is a. room for their son Dmitri, who visits when he can take time from his operatic career in Milan. When he is in residence, the tone-deaf father sings gleefully in the bathroom until Dmitri makes him stop...
...tolerant gentile connections. The story begins in the 1940s at a political dinner given in honor of Judge Simon Mannix, a shrewd, large-minded man who has been "mentioned" for the Supreme Court. He is well sketched by the author, and one impudent touch is superb: Mannix has a deaf son, she relates, and thus has learned to lipread. To know what is being whispered at a testimonial dinner is to be an ironist, and Mannix is one. As he leaves the dinner to exchange ruefulnesses with an ancient Virginia jurist, the reader looks forward to a wry tour, perhaps...
Gallaudet College for the Deaf College Work-Study Program...
...Maria designed it with microphones at either end, which-in theory at least-could be hooked up to an amplifying system. Thus the "ping" of the ball would be amplified 50 times, and the viewer-listener who wanted to roll the ball back and forth could go deaf...
...long illness; in Ouchy, Switzerland. One of 40 grandchildren of Britain's Queen Victoria, the gentle Queen Ena suffered stoically through a life studded with sadness. In 1906, an anarchist's bomb thrown at her bridal coach killed a score of bystanders. One of her sons was deaf, two were hemophiliacs (they later died in automobile accidents). King Alfonso was a known philanderer and, after going into exile, she and her husband lived apart. Only once did Queen Ena return to Spain-last year, when she accepted the role of godmother to her great-grandson, Prince Felipe, newborn...