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With this Tennessee Williams-toned opening scene, audiences at Tanglewood's Theater-Concert Hall were introduced last week to a new one-act trilingual opera entitled Tale for a Deaf Ear, by Manhattan Composer Mark Bucci (rhymes with kootchy). For the Gateses, things quickly go from bad to hideous; Laura tosses a glass of Scotch in Tracy's face, and Tracy, rising to slug her, falls to the floor, dead of a heart attack. A repentant Laura kneels and prays that he be restored to life. While a pit chorus explains what is going on, three legendary miracles...
...Friday Mrs. Miner has sandwiched 15 hours of typing time among the chores of a housewife. She stuffs the 26-to 30-page completed cover story into a Manila envelope, drops it in the mail. By Saturday, Richard Kinney, deaf-blind instructor at Winnetka's Hadley School for the Blind, has begun to run his fingers across one of the few up-to-date news stories available to him (most braille transcribing lags weeks behind publication dates, and for the deaf-blind, for whom radio is useless, news almost always grows stale before it is read). Kinney, who never...
...readily understand how much color and background TIME cover stories add to the news bulletins that blind people receive by radio," he says. "Imagine, then, what worlds of art, thought and politics these wide-ranging articles open up to those of us who are both blind and deaf...
...years of Denmark's plan, there were 8,600 sterilizations (in a population of 4,500,000). More than two-thirds were performed on mental defectives, of whom two-thirds were women. Of the 3,663 patients sterilized for reasons other than mental deficiency (e.g., physical deformities, deaf-mutism), seven-eighths were women. In recent years the number sterilized for feeblemindedness has dropped sharply (from 283 to 165 a year), partly because the backlog of cases adjudged to need sterilization has been reduced, but partly, Kemp admits, "because the definition of feeblemindedness has changed during recent years...
...soon as he hits the once-sleepy town of Bradysboro and hears a booster babbling about the "threshold of a new era." At his family's disintegrating tobacco plantation, he finds his father a sick shell, echoing with remembrances of the South's past and pointedly deaf to the whistle of a passing train. Duncan's sister is about to marry a progressive-minded preacher who is less interested in racial equality than he is in evening the score with erstwhile "first families" like the Welshes. Logan, the Negro field worker, is still loyal...