Word: deafness
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...music-loving Hungarian steward to a princely house, Franz Liszt was an infant prodigy. When he was 11, deaf old Beethoven is reported to have kissed him for his playing. Liszt's father took him to Paris, where he studied, gave public and private concerts, astounded all comers. He was fair, good-looking, wore long hair. Father Liszt knew what he was talking about when he said: "With you, it is women I am afraid...
...female quintet who indicated "rockets' red glare" spelling out "rockets" with their hands, touching two fingers to their lips ("red"), throwing open palms out from widened eyes ("glare"). Thus began New York's quietest convention in 51 years-the 17th Triennial of the National Association of the Deaf, which has not met in Manhattan since its first convention...
...persons from the U. S., Mexico and Europe attended the convention. Most of them were set apart by inability to speak or hear or both but their chief convention problem was universal-jobs. They were worried by a tendency among employers during Depression to refuse jobs to deaf persons. To refute the commonest excuse offered N. A. D.'s retiring President William Shaub of St Louis last week reported on a 40-State survey which showed that the compensation and liability laws of not a single State discriminate against the deaf...
Other delegates last week were eagerly awaiting the results of a current nation-wide survey by the U. S. Office of Education to locate all unemployed deaf persons, find jobs for them in CWA and PWA, check up on the success of deaf persons in various occupations...
Biggest educational advance reported at the convention was the opening of Montana School for the Deaf and Blind at Great Falls. Biggest educational problem was what to do about the sign language. Some educators of the deaf (called "oralists") are currently trying to discourage its use. They favor lipreading, say the use of sign language leads children to invent undesirable word pictures, hinders their learning the English language. Sign language adherents say that lipreading is an art which not all can master...