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...able to concentrate only on “listening with every muscle in my body,” becoming, in the process, a “huge ear,” she said...
Walser and another of Simmons’s School Committee allies, Alice L. Turkel, say they expect Simmons to be a sympathetic ear on the council...
...It’s hard to say sometimes why the distinction is even there,” she said, brushing a strand of long, brown hair behind her ear. “A lot of extension school students participate in the same activities as the college students and even take essentially the same classes. They have friends at the college. You begin to ask yourself where the distinction lies. Is it in the application to college? We can’t deny it’s there, but the more time you spend at the extension school, it just becomes...
...Traders, however, are their own community - the ear of a stranger with a notebook and a tape recorder is nobody's first choice. Aside from a filial tolerance of floor-roamers like Maria Bartiromo and their camera crews, the NYSE is not built for media, and Wall Street as a news object is the opposite of Washington - it doesn?t need or want coverage to make its living, and traders don?t do soundbites in the best of times...
Perhaps the most dramatic aspect of the Onimusha score is the fact that the composer can barely hear it himself. At 24, he was found to have a severe hearing disability, and today he is completely deaf in his left ear and can hear only slightly with the help of a hearing aid in his right. His condition has brought him a certain celebrity, which he fears may detract from an honest critique of his work. He understands the inspirational appeal of the story of a digital-age Beethoven, a deaf composer who overcomes the loss of the sense most...