Word: deafness
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...chorus had finally mastered the then "superhuman" difficulties of the score. The great concert hall in Vienna was packed to overflowing; tears came to the performers' eyes as the music started; the performance was frequently interrupted by thunders of the applause. But Beethoven himself heard nothing. He was 'deaf. It was not until his friend Unger wheeled him around that he saw the enthusiasm of the audience...
Beethoven, absolutely deaf, once said: "He who can enter into the spirit of my music will be beyond the reach of the world's misery." His "Ninth" sublimates his own struggle; it closes with a version of Schiller's Hymn...
...deaf composer beat time at its first presentation in Vienna. He could not hear the applause. A musician touched him, pointed to the thousand clapping hands...
...gratified to hear the sentiments they voiced coming from veterans of the War. ¶Visitors at the White House, aside from officials, included the Rev. G. A. Studdert Kennedy ("Woodbine Willie"), chaplain to the King of England; the graduating class of the New York School for the Deaf; Senator Jose T. Solo of Porto Rico, who pleaded for Porto Rican statehood; the Japanese Ambassador to present Vice Admiral Kenji Ide; Senator Fess and John N. Willys (automobiles) for luncheon...
Their fountain pens are not done jabbing, however. Under the protecting wing of Alfred A. Knopf who has befriended and encouraged many to whom smug society turned a deaf ear and an unseeing eye, they have started a new magazine, The American Mercury. While in the Smart Set, perhaps to keep a fire in the editorial office, they were forced at times to pander to the tastes of readers who demanded undisturbing fiction, in their newest venture with a publisher like Knopf behind them they need serve neither fiction nor soothing copy of any kind, but may scratch and sting...