Word: deafness
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...seventh week of the treason trial of former Sergeant John David Provoo (TIME, Nov. 24) was 69-year-old General Jonathan M. Wainwright, called as witness for the defense. To the lawyer who was forced to shout his questions, Wainwright apologized and explained that he was nearly deaf as a result of shell bursts during the siege of Corregidor. After testifying that he had not known Provoo, nor had he received reports that the man had given aid & comfort to the enemy, the general gave the Manhattan jury a moving, 90-minute account of the defense and surrender...
...club-type lecture-recital on how to be a concert singer that is sometimes too true to be funny. Examples include a noisy aria for singers with "resonance where the brains ought to be," art songs for singers with "artistry but no voice." modern music for tone-deaf singers ("the more off-key, the more contemporary...
...Kirawara, 48 miles north of Nairobi, an awe-struck crowd of 2,000 Kikuyu tribesmen squatted in the market place amid green bananas and calabash gourds, clapping their hands to their mouths to signify their proper respect for "Big Magic." A spindly-legged youth, thought to be a hopeless deaf-mute, had suddenly started prophesying that "God would arrive in Kirawara at one o'clock." Attracted by the commotion, a British-led patrol of Kenya's African police came crashing through the jungle, intent on arresting the prophet as a mouthpiece of the Mau Mau, the terrorist secret...
...discovered a powerful voice, tuneless, yet penetrating enough, as he himself said, "to peel the bark off a gum tree," or "galvanize ten dead bullocks to a trot." A gnomelike figure (5 ft. tall, under 100 lbs.), among the muscular wharf lumpers he was said to be "too deaf to listen to reason, too loud to be ignored, and too small to hit." He was soon representing the waterfront in the New South Wales Parliament...
...diamonds on "a white and saucy breast." It was a spectacle, he says, "that fair dazzled the eye," and he admits that he found it "elegant," "gracious." even "delightful at times." But he then goes on to say how much it disgusted him. Moreover, his hostesses were all deaf and seemed not to hear when he cried: "Come, sell all thou hast, and come follow me . . . follow the people...