Word: deafness
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Schumacher's successor is tubby little Erich Ollenhauer. He lacks spark, and his party lacks an issue. Old-fashioned Socialist oratory about class warfare falls on deaf ears in the Germany of today. For a time, German unity looked like a hot issue: all Germans want it, and Adenauer seemed slow about pressing for it. But since the June 17 East German riots, Adenauer's contemptuous and firm treatment of the Russians has proven good politics...
Citation: "When her first-born child was discovered to be deaf, she began her lifelong work of finding for her own son, and then of sharing with other parents, the most effective methods of teaching the deaf child...
...honor (Minneapolis' prized Rembrandt, Lucretia, had been moved aside to make room for it). Goya painted the Self Portrait in 1820 at the peak of his genius, as a tribute to a man he firmly believed saved his life. In 1819 Goya was 73 years old, totally deaf and seriously ill. Sickness always made the touchy Spaniard roar with anguish and self-pity. "I'm so frantic, I can scarcely stand myself," he told a friend. But a sympathetic doctor named Arrieta brought him around, and the artist decided to put his gratitude into a picture...
Metaphysics or Not? As his plot suggests, Vercors is more supple than subtle in the use of his imagination. His strength lies in his good humor, which comes out best when Douglas Templemore comes up for trial. The scientific experts file into the witness box; one is deaf, one is shortsighted, one is smooth as candle grease; but none agrees with the next on what constitutes a human being. Is man to be defined by his jawbone? By his rational capacity? By his grasp of metaphysics? Or is the judge right when he muses (without a trace of cynicism) that...
...McGartys were Australian riffraff -and well content to be, so long as nobody tried to reform them. Hector ran the "Sword of Fortune," a pub near Sydney's waterfront, where blood flowed almost as freely as beer. Grandma lived near by, pretending to be deaf yet privy to every racket within miles. Wilma had eight children, none legitimate. Fred, during a turn at the reform school, ate a tin of nails to spite the superintendent. Clarrie was a con man and the family intellectual: "It's a sort of poetry," he said, "to read over the names...