Word: blind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THESE PROBLEMS necessitate an examination of Harvard and Radcliffe's commitment to coeducation, with a sharp eye out to equitable distribution of benefits to both men and women. Totally sex-blind practices are impossible as long as Radcliffe remains a separate institution--a course it seems determined to follow and not without good reason. For example, Wolfman says that if Harvard and Radcliffe applied together for work-study money then they could equalize the funding for men and women, but Radcliffe would lose over $1 million in other grants that depend on its independent status. But if Radcliffe is truly...
Captain Carl Yastrzemski didn't seem stoned when he took batting practice the next day. With the blind confidence of a speeding freight train, he pummelled each pitch exactly where he said he was going to put it, never seeing a doubt or distraction from the corner...
...Watch," he said boldly, "five base hits." And every muscle in his 38-year-old body responded perfectly, cracking every pitch like a cherry bomb with blind precision. "Knock yaw glove off," he cracked drily...
Despite these encumbrances, however, some of the profiles do come alive. Will Barnes, for example, recalls life in an Idaho mining camp, where his mother's five husbands "slammed her around, beat her kids, stole her money, drank themselves blind and in the end either deserted her or ran down the road with my mother shooting in the doorway after them." A Party member for 30 years and an organizer in the National Maritime Union, Barnes is still suffering from the aftermath of the witch-hunting America of the 1950s...
...article of February 9, entitled "Color-Blind Populism," J. Wyatt Emmerich seems to applaud everything Mississippi Governor Cliff Finch has done, and sees him as some sort of redeemer for the state. According to him, Finch has wiped out racism and become the hero of the people. He has stood up against the "independent and covetous" legislature and united the poor blacks and whites into a brotherhood with political clout...