Word: blindest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what it feels like to break stones and trim flags.' " Each is lucidly articulate about his views. Old Road-Dust insists: "Everything is always what it is able to be and never otherwise . . . He who knows the world takes it as it is when it is at its blindest, not as it is when it is seeing most clearly." Sandemar, a world-roaming aristocrat among tramps, carries a slate on which he writes and then wipes out his thoughts. Why? "I'll tell you-because we have found nothing. We merely find that it is possible...
...policies, however, it tends to speak for a small segment of liberalism-small but not insignificant. One looks back with regret to the time when the Nation spoke for all the liberals and was a better magazine than it is today . . . The Nation . . . has preserved what was weakest and blindest in the old liberalism, and has carried over attitudes that once were merely irresponsible but now are dangerous...
...this biggest, gram blindest class has decided that it will make up its own mind about certain issues of some importance. It has had these issues dropped in its lap by the College, and has heard evidence; it has made up its mind on some issues now, and will decide others in the future. Harvard has provided techniques for thinking and deciding. The questions on which decisions are to be made have properly been left to the individual's selection...