Word: deafness
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...crime show, dramatizing each week a different area of corruption (waterfront, highway construction). But the rest of the season's prodigious list of new crime shows are mainly 30-caliber bull. NBC's 87th Precinct began with a gimmick (the heroine of the initial episodes was the deaf-mute wife of a police detective) and will undoubtedly end on one-soon. Cain's Hundred (also NBC) has introduced Nicholas Cain (Mark Richman), onetime attorney for the mob, now bent on revenge for the mob murder of his fianc...
...hours of valuable air time?" No one knew, and nobody thought of asking her why she had agreed to discuss The Clan in the first place. And so the program lurched toward the murky end. Gleason: "I'm loaded." Lemmon: "I know that." Mannes: "I feel like a deaf mute in a field of hog callers." Joe E. Lewis: "Out of the mouths of babes very often comes-oatmeal...
...thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something, they'd have to write it on a piece of paper and shove it over to me. I'd build me a little cabin somewhere with the dough I made. I'd build it right near the woods, but not right in them, because I'd want it to be sunny as hell all the time...
...rest of his exhausting U.S. tour, Ayub needed all the iron he had. He found the President deaf to his impertinent insistence that the U.S. halt military aid to neutral India, got only silence from Catholic Kennedy when he asked for U.S. help in controlling Pakistan's soaring birth rate. (Said Ayub: "We want to be able to make 'em take a pill, then poof, that's that.") But Ayub did not hesitate to tell Kennedy exactly what he thought of Nehru ("People think he's thinking. Actually, he's just in a trance...
None of it would have happened, Edison once said, if he had not been almost completely deaf: he perfected the phonograph in 1887 because his own faulty hearing made him fascinated by the science of sound. His invention so fascinated the public that in those early years audiences sat for whole evenings in stunned silence listening to the tinfoil phonograph crow like a cock, bark like a dog or babble in foreign tongues. Later, the German Pianist-Conductor Hans von Bulow was so moved by Edison's handiwork that when he heard a recording of himself playing a Chopin...