Word: deafness
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...plaintive cry falls not on deaf ears. Of a sudden, there is a subtle, barely perceptible murmur in the town--a faint rustling, and in the distance, the monotonous scrape-scrape of steel wool on long forgotten hope chests...
...added. "From this 'must,' art flees as day shuns the night." He wrote that "clinging to a 'school' . . . can only lead to misunderstanding, misconception, obscurity and mutilation. The artist should be blind to the importance of 'recognition' or 'nonrecognition' and deaf to the teachings and demands of the time. His eye should be directed to his inner life and his ear should harken to the words of the inner necessity...
...teetotaling Muley Doughton-"what little brains I got, I have to keep sober so I can do my work"-Washington was losing a sturdy landmark. At 88, he is getting deaf (though some say he can hear just fine when he wants to). In the last year or so, he has taken to sleeping in, gets to his office around 8 a.m., three hours later than in the old days. But his 6 ft. 2 in. frame is still as straight as an Indian's and almost as tough as it was in his boyhood on the farm, when...
...Administration for Russian successes. Taft in particular points toward Administration stupidity as the source of Russian power; for instance, he terms the Korean War useless because it could have been prevented by leaving American troops in Korea after the war. Yet four years ago, the Senator turned a deaf ear to Secretary Acheson's plea for military and economic aid to Korea...
...third act which I considered the high-point of the evening. Here the authoress did her impressions of four characters immortalized in the posters of Toulouse Lautree, "La Goulue," "A Lion Tamer," "Deaf Bertha," and the magnificent Yvette Gilbert. While these impressions lacked the humorous twists of the earlier ones, they seemed to be fuller, more human. The women here were dressed exactly as they appear in the famous posters, and it would be difficult if not impossible for the uninformed observer to tell that they were being played by the same person...