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...either of two special schools in France, both run by Dr. Guy Perdoncini, 50, who has his schools in Villefranche near Nice, and at La Norville outside Paris. Otologists have long known that even the "totally" deaf child usually has a vestige of hearing-mainly for the rumbling, deep-bass tones, which carry more energy than thin, high notes. Dr. Perdoncini was convinced that even this minimal capacity could be developed so that the child could learn near-normal speech. And in finding ways to prove his theory, he has made himself a world leader in the treatment and education...
...little freshman in a Perdoncini school is fitted with earphones into which a bass tone is fed at a volume that would be ear-shattering to a person with normal hearing. At first the sensation means nothing to the student. But he also gets a visual signal; a light flashes on along with the sound, and the teacher gestures with her hand to show that she has heard and seen. The youngster copies her and gestures with his hand to show that he, too, has heard and seen. Soon he learns to recognize the sound alone, and the visual...
Belmondo plays a. bass fiddle until Moreau, his former wife, lures him into a role as confidence man. Her goal is to set up a double swindle that will avenge her dead father, whose career was ruined 20 years earlier when he built a dam of rather flimsy concrete supplied by unscrupulous partners. On an offshore island, the first victim is soon shelling out 40 million francs for rights to a sandy beach he already owns. Then, in sunny Nice, Partner No. 2 (Gert Frobe, the Goldfinger of Goldfinger) finds himself jowl-deep in violence, sham infidelity, fixed races...
OSCAR PETERSON TRIO PLUS ONE (Mercu-ry). The guest plus is Trumpeter Clark Terry, who makes himself right at home, tearing along breakneck above Ray Brown's bouncing bass in Squeaky's Blues, weeping into his flugelhorn in They Didn't Believe Me, choking out a funny song of his own called Incoherent Blues...
...quitting-for the moment-while he is still very much ahead. One of the best stories in the new collection lacks any trace of sameness. It is about the suicide of a bass-fiddle player, and with beautiful simplicity it conveys a sense of sadness and longing more intense than any work of O'Hara's since Appointment in Samarra...