Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave a repeat performance in The Hague the second night, got a repeat performance from the critics. Back in London at week's end, Conductor Britten admitted that the garden frolic had flopped. As for the critics: "I don't read criticism ever. I wouldn't listen to what the critics say. Why should I read what they write...
Since then they have been so busy that "sometimes," says Sister Jeanne Madeleine, "we feel that three lifetimes wouldn't be enough for all we want to do." To prepare a composition for their music classes, they must first listen to it played on records, then write it out in Braille, and finally learn each section, one hand at a time. After that come hours of practicing together, sandwiched in between the duties and ritual of their order...
...John's, they teach the deaf to speak. The children read their lips, and as they do the sisters use the piano to stress the inflection of words-the accent of a syllable, the rhythm of a phrase, the melody of a whole sentence. The children listen with their hands and gradually their rasping monotones begin to break into clear and normal speech...
...Concentrate. At two, they also begin to learn French or Spanish from pictures and classroom conversation. They start each day with a prayer ("Teach us, O God, to love Thee and to be kind to each other . . ."), and listen to stories read from the Bible. Later on, they study the Scriptures, attend Bible classes right up to graduation. Says Mrs. Buckley: "We have to go back to the things that churches and Sunday schools used to teach my generation . . . respect for the laws of God ... a habitual vision of greatness...
...first grade, she expects them to read, with ease, to have begun spelling, writing and arithmetic. Her techniques are as old-fashioned as her principles. Her teachers are not afraid of drilling their charges, or of having them memorize reams of poetry, or of making them listen quietly to a symphony or concerto. As Mrs. Buckley sees it, children like to learn-and they like to learn thoroughly. "It seems a shame," says she, "to deprive them of the pleasure...