Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lame and the halt with a bit of cloth wetted by the tears of the Madonna; a 49-year-old man got back the use of his crippled left arm, a three-year-old girl moved her polio-paralyzed arm, an 18-year-old girl who had been dumb suddenly spoke...
...selected several leaflets and brandished them as he spoke. "What we can do is protest the frightful, cruel, and revolting practices of our own government. Did you know that the Army used live goats as targets for high-powered rifles? That we subject dumb animals to fall-out and shoot monkeys up in rockets...
...Story begins when Esther Costello, an eight-year-old Irish girl, finds a cache of grenades in a ruined farmhouse and accidentally detonates them, killing her mother. The explosion does the girl no actual physical harm, but the shock leaves her deaf, dumb and blind. Five years later, an American woman (Joan Crawford) with plenty of money and nothing to do-she has recently walked out on her unfaithful husband (Rossano Brazzi) -takes the child (Heather Sears) on maternal impulse, and with the help of some therapists teaches her to hear, speak and see with her hands...
...Egghead (by Molly Kazan) is a contemporary play about a not-very-contemporary-minded professor. Hank Parson is full of high-minded intolerances, grants his seemingly dumb wife the freedom of thought to agree with him, chants ancient war cries while ignoring current wars. Then the FBI comes investigating a favorite former student of his, a brilliant Negro. Certain that the student is not a Communist and equally certain why he is being smeared as one, Parson rushes to his defense and brings him to the college to speak. All too soon, by way of his wife's sleuthing...
...German-American father's "Lilliputian delicatessen." Father and mother have taught him that his three brothers and a sister are geniuses, but that he is a dolt. He takes it in good grace: "I sure wish I was an artist, a genius, thought Edward, instead of being dumb like I am." Dumb Ed has a dumb friend, a little pet hen that pecks "feverishly at his lips and cheeks" when he is not busy slicing salami. One day Ed's youngest brother lets the hen out of the coop to be eaten by a cat. Any psychologically oriented...