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If the child is born deaf, he is at first better off. Later, however, he lives a life of terrifying confusion. Usually, he hears no explanation for sudden and unexpected events, never hears the thousands of words that tie daily happenings together. Gradually, he begins to learn that he is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In a Silent World | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

When another orchestra plays in the home of the Boston Symphony it is natural to draw some comparison between the two. The immediately striking difference is that the Royal Philharmonic has almost perfect balance. Although the Boston Symphony is a great orchestra it is well known that its brass section...

Author: By Brenton Welling, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

Then, "one sweltering hot evening in late May ... he hears a mighty storm raging ten miles away in the hills and knows the rains have broken." A wall of brown, log-choked water bears down on him. "He staggers and falls, but the groan he gives is drowned by peals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jumbo in Burma | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

From then on, Jeremiah rushes headlong to disaster-an elaborate venture into murder, his apprehension by some bumbling louts intent on gaining the reward for the murderer's discovery, the climactic trial at which he hears himself convicted by false testimony he cannot refute because of his even greater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Web of Politics | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

The sad truth is that Mrs. Geysel has become a lot too good to be true during her metamorphosis into The Legacy's heroine, Jean Paget. Jean is a wonderful girl, but she never existed outside a glossy-paper fiction magazine with a woman's angle. While she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Too Good to Be True | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

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