Word: deafness
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...Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist, onetime presidential hopeful and perennial Nobel candidate, lightly fictionalizes their stories in alternating chapters, portraits of two literally kindred souls in revolt against the horsewhips and hypocrisy of the bourgeois order. Both of them rejected the world as they found it--repressed, greedy, deaf to the higher (or lower) impulses. Each of them died with hands still stretched toward the horizon...
...from grandparent-friendly oldies (When a Man Loves a Woman) through the disco era (Celebration) to 21st century raves (Complicated). So it's not hard to imagine the whole family battling for the next turn at the mike. The easiest level is forgiving enough for even the most tone-deaf warbler to win a round or two. Just be thankful Simon Cowell isn't listening...
When my husband landed a teaching job at the University of Connecticut, my then mother-in-law said, "You don't have to go on with the singing." But her words fell on deaf ears, because I knew then that music was much more than a way to earn money; it was a calling. Through folk music, I connected with the upheavals in our nation and the students on college campuses and drew strength from singers like Harry Belafonte, the Kingston Trio and the Weavers, who were making names for themselves with political songs...
...from true hypochondria, it's no joke. Hypochondriacs live in constant terror that they are dying of some awful disease, or even several awful diseases at once. Doctors can assure them that there's nothing wrong, but since the cough or the pain is real, the assurances fall on deaf ears. And because no physician or test can offer a 100% guarantee that one doesn't have cancer or multiple sclerosis or an ulcer, a hypochondriac always has fuel to feed his or her worst fears...
President Bush's return to the United Nations was always going to be a dialogue of the deaf: Washington's critics in the international forum believe the U.S. went to war in Iraq with neither good reason nor international mandate, and they believe that postwar events have vindicated their opposition; President Bush has no doubt he did the right thing, and the logic of domestic politics required that he forcefully restate his reasons - anything less would have played into the strategy of those Democratic Party hopefuls who hope to make electoral hay out of America's growing anxiety over...