Word: deafness
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...statistics are cold and the same cry from the same voices soon falls on deaf ears. Last week educators tried a new tack when they got many a famed citizen to take up their cause at a "Citizens Conference on the Crisis in Education," sponsored by Ohio State University at Columbus...
...newshawks. "What did I do? I took a pencil and on the back of an envelope I wrote, 'What do you want?' and handed it to a big guy leading the crowd. He read it, then turned around and said, 'My God, boys, he's deaf and dumb...
Hearing lectures and sermons in "signs" and watching choristers "sign" their hymns in unison is fairly common for U. S. deaf-mutes in urban centres. In Manhattan there are three congregations for them, Catholic, Episcopal and Jewish. Once a week Jews attend services supervised by Mrs. Tanya Nash, widow of a rabbi, who provides guest rabbis and interpreters. Because deaf persons cannot understand a person whose face or hands they cannot see, the parts of the Jewish ritual in which the rabbi's back is turned on the congregation have been eliminated. Catholic deaf-mutes in New York, Philadelphia...
Special services for mutes are given in Chicago by Methodist Rev. Philip J. Hasenstab and Rev. Henry S. Rutherford, who alternate in carrying their work throughout the Midwest. In San Francisco Lutheran Pastor Charles Jaetner conducts services twice a month. Jews, Catholics and Protestants in Atlanta may attend special deaf-mute services every Sunday at St. Mark's Methodist Church. In Dallas deaf-mutes meet weekly in the First Baptist Church. Mrs. Clara E. Hemphill is the leading sign language teacher of that city. Her great concern is to persuade Episcopalians to provide mute services because she believes...
...refused his food, then raged at them for letting it get cold. For nearly five years Ludwig van Beethoven stormed thus at life and music. He was spending his last great powers on a Mass, struggling to keep the mighty contents within the liturgical framework. He was too deaf to know the noise he made at home, too deaf to hear any of his music at the first Vienna performance in 1824. Nevertheless he insisted on standing in the pit and beating time along with the regular conductor. With a fervor and concentration worthy of the music Arturo Toscanini gave...