Word: blind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time, insofar as we can, it is necessary for the Western democracies to recapture the sense that they can control their own destiny-that they are not subject to blind economic forces that sweep across, that produce unemployment, that produce inflation. This is the reasoning behind the planned summit meeting in November...
Even that tense mixture seems prefer able to the unmixed subjectivity of this Lisztless exercise. Lisztomania is not only a parody of biographical convention, but a self-parody as well - a non stop effort to blind audiences to a once interesting sensibility now decayed into vulgarity...
...Kearns case, Democratic Senator William Proxmire accused the former Ex-Im Bank chief of arranging while in Government service a lucrative sale of stock that was in a "blind trust." Under the rules for such a trust, the beneficiary is not supposed to know what is being done with his stock. Proxmire demanded last week that the Justice Department take action against Kearns. The department had earlier investigated Kearns and said that it found no cause for criminal proceedings...
McNealy said the squad had to play "a trick course with a lot of blind shots and sharp dog-legs." He also said that the Harvard golfers had not seen the course before Thursday...
...Sartre has left off writing because he is nearly blind. It was a job, what he had called "The task of wresting [his] life from the various forms of night," which he considers finished now--even destroyed. During an interview given in 1959, he felt that "What is primary is what I haven't yet written--what I intend to write (not tomorrow, but the day after tomorrow) and what perhaps I will never write..." Maybe this early premonition that something would always remain to be written explains his serenity in a recent conversation with Michel Contat. Although...