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This article is especially important to me since I am deaf and miss most of the verbalizations of the show. When my wife, who can hear, explains them to me, they just don't seem funny. Your story effectively delineated that lost spontaneity...
CARSON McCULLERS should have left her first novel untitled. Its story of a deaf-mute who becomes a confessor for an odd assortment of searching, lost human beings has in my opinion been generally overrated. Her book is good, but it hardly lives up to the promise of its haunting, haiku-like title -- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter...
...film version has taken the relationship between John Singer (Alan Arkin), the deaf-mute who unites the five disparate subplots of the novel, and a young girl named Mick (Sondra Locke), and made it the central theme of the movie. Curiously, although we now see more of Singer, he has become a guardian angel rather than the guiding light he was in the novel. One no longer has the feeling that his presence is essential in the lives of most of the characters. He now just hovers about at a distance. Singer's tragedy--the fact that he never really...
...polite," she says complacently, "even if it killed you." Living in a world of Satsuma bowls and family portraits, she nonetheless bravely jousts with the local mineowners, predictably besting them all. Through a shrewd financial maneuver, she forces them to pay their delinquent school taxes. Conveniently deaf, socially deft and totally domineering, she admits to only one slight fear-of hospitals. But she rises to any occasion, especially if it turns out to be a family funeral...
...complex hummed with the enthusiasm of 15,000 students for whom this was the center of revolutionary operations. Hands and clothes were dirtied from the ink of freshly printed leaflets. These were to be distributed to students, working people, parents--anyone who could read and respond. "The government is deaf to our voice so we must speak louder and clearer," one student said...