Word: blind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprisingly short time the chemistry of our country's air has undergone important, refreshing changes. Only a blind man could fail to see it or call it a political fraud. Glasnost is not a deception. It is an evolution. Gorbachev did not invent it, nor did he impose it from above, as those in the West sometimes believe. In his desire to accelerate the development of openness and the economy, he is reflecting the historical imperatives that have emerged from our people themselves...
...that in the West, and especially in the U.S., there is also room for opening and restructuring. Armchair warriors exist not only in our socialist world but in the capitalist one. The difference is that ours build their careers on uncritical pro-Sovietism and yours build their careers on blind anti-Sovietism. John F. Kennedy was right when he said that the real borders are not the ones that divide countries, but the ones that divide people. Your hard-liners do not want international tensions to diminish. They do not want glasnost and freedom to develop in the U.S.S.R. because...
...year is young, but it is unlikely that any title in 1987 will top this one for mystification and intrigue. Fair enough: its subjects are the oddest achievers in the history of show business. Here is Blind Tom, born to slave parents in 1849. Sightless and retarded, this exemplary idiot savant could play most pieces on the piano, classical or popular, after a single hearing. Here is Harry Kahne, who could write five words on a blackboard simultaneously, holding chalk in his feet, hands and mouth. Here is Matthew Buchinger, who was a marksman, conjurer, artist and musician. Not exactly...
...then can the perennial challenge be met of finding and constructing significant meaning in the midst of declining values for images and words." This is modish nonsense. What becomes more obvious with each passing year of postmodernism is that art's relation to mass media has become an aesthetic blind alley and that only an enhanced sense of the world's concreteness -- opposing the flimflam of manipulation that gets spun about it -- is likely to redeem the discourse of painting...
What activists need to regain popularity and inspire enthusiasm at Harvard is some tangible success on campus. Rather than dealing exclusively with South Africa, activists should vary their punch and also attack divisions and stratification right here at Harvard. Indeed, campus protesters have so far been disturbingly blind to the barriers which continue to plague our community...