Word: deafness
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...embrace the soul in one another, the soul of life. They appreciate something that treats race, gender and religion as being as incidental as the clothes we wear. Marsalis is right on the mark. Perhaps if enough people speak out, as he has, they will pierce the tone-deaf arrogance of the powerful. Peter Piaskoski Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
Council members said at the time that they hoped to discuss with the Corporation the sources of Faculty discontent with Summers and to address concerns that the Corporation was deaf to complaints of the Faculty...
...land of the blind, the old saying has it, the one-eyed man is king. In a country intimidated into silence, a signer for the deaf was among the first to speak out. Not that Natalya Dmitruk, 48, planned it that way in the fall of 2004, when she worked as a signer for the Ukrainian state-run television station UT-1. The runoff for the presidential elections had just taken place, and the tightly controlled TV broadcasters were reporting that outgoing President Leonid Kuchma's favored candidate, Viktor Yanukovych, had beaten challenger Viktor Yushchenko. But evidence was mounting that...
...talents, he has amazing insight. Perhaps musicians share an understanding that easily transcends racial and class lines. Musicians appreciate something that treats race, gender and religion as being incidental. Marsalis is right on the mark. Maybe if enough people speak out, as he has, they will pierce the tone-deaf arrogance of the powerful...
Thursday, Oct. 20. “Beethoven: Universal Composer.” Edmund Morris, who is best known for his biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, discusses the brilliant (and ultimately deaf) composer. 6:30 p.m. First Parish Church, 3 Church...