Word: blindfold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paul Morphy, one of the great chess masters, sailed for Europe after winning the U.S. championship in 1857 at age 20. In a year and a half of playing he won or drew 273 out of 315 games, defeating the greatest European masters. His specialty was blindfold play, always with eight opponents. However, the official world championship title, never yet won by an American, dates from...
...lawyers [May 3], was obsessed with the legal profession's lack of a counterpart for the physicians' Luke and the soldiers' George. He journeyed to Rome and put the matter before the Pope. His Holiness directed Yves to go around the Church of St. John Lateran blindfolded and, after saying certain specific prayers, grasp a saintly figure, which would become the lawyers' patron. Yves, catching hold of an image, cried: "This is our saint!" Removing his blindfold, he was horrified to find that he had laid hold of the figure of the devil under the feet...
...right mind would argue that 1971-with its recession and its exhausting and hateful war-is the best year this country has ever seen. Given a choice, many Americans would put on a blindfold and pick out of a hat another year in which to live-any one of the past 500. But as Marie Twain, Lord Byron and countless other writers suggest, they would soon repent upon discovering that there is no such thing as a golden age. The past is an illusion just as much as the future; it is Utopia in reverse...
...underground and was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp before returning to his homeland after World War II. Traces of Z are immediately apparent. On a gray January day in 1951, Gerard is cut off in a Prague street by two carloads of secret police who rough him up, blindfold him and whisk him off to prison without a word...
...hope appears to balance, blindfold and invisible, upon a shaky raft. Something of that sort, surely, is implied by the accumulation of incidents in Bruegel's Dark Day. But there is realism in it too. That foreground bank of earth, where the peasants work, somehow seems much earthier than any other in world...