Word: blind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lived up to it with matchless rigor. Prior to the liberalizing Second Vatican Council, Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani was one of the most feared and powerful princes of the Roman Catholic world. His authority as a ranking doctrinal watchdog came from his influence within the Holy Office. Ottaviani was half blind but, the Vatican saying went, "sees more with one eye than most see with two." Armed with a steely mind and consummate dedication, he became in his own word, a "carabiniere" (policeman) of orthodoxy. Even after the windows of the Vatican were finally opened to change, he never ceased...
Sincere though she may have been, her own blind faith won few converts. In Chicago, her first stop, her address to the National Urban League included a long litany of Carter's black appointees, each name followed by the refrain "he [or she] happens to be black." The derisive jokes muttered by delegates who found the speech patronizing were capped when Vernon Jordan began his keynote speech by saying, "I'm president of the National Urban League and I happen to be black." When she insisted to 500 guests at a fund raiser in Dallas that "Jimmy...
Readers of Frame's Scented Gardens for the Blind and Yellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room will be prepared for the unexpected. Literary aestheticians can ponder the author's ideas on replica and originals. Structural purists may find her infusions of poetry unwiedly and unnecessary. Frame herself simply calls the book an entertainment. It is that and more, for she proves to be not only spinner of bizarre and hunting fantasy but a sharp social observer as well. Her descriptions of New Zealand suburbanization, of California as public confessional booth, of television and religious fakers convey a reality...
...inside violin cases). The conspirators wear three-piece business suits. The conspiracy is hatched in a cocktail lounge; Artemidorus, the rhetoric teacher, who will try to warn Caesar of the plot, has become a journalist who eavesdrops and takes notes in a reporter's pad. The Soothsayer is a blind man hawking copies of an astrology magazine. Mark Antony, on his first appearance, wears a jogging suit and running shoes. In his domestic scene with his wife, Caesar is attired in pajamas, bathrobe and slippers. Cicero appropriately carries a book, and Casca nervously smokes cigarettes. You get the idea...
...weigh only a third as much as the Ike dollar. They are also cheaper to produce than paper dollars-3? for a coin that lasts 15 years vs. 1.8? for a bill that survives 18 months. The coin's distinctive undecagonal shape, besides being an aid to the blind, is also intended to help store clerks and bank tellers speed up transaction time and reduce errors; it should also cut down on jamming in currency-counting machines used at banks. In fact, the " Susan's" only flaw may be its size, which is just slightly larger than...