Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have in America the largest public school system on earth, the most expensive college buildings, the most extensive curriculum, but nowhere else is education so pointless and aimless, so blind to its objectives, so indifferent to any specific outcome as in America...
Alone but not aloof sat the blind Senator, Minnesota's Schall. His whole outlook is different, says his wife, now that he has a German police dog, "Lux," to lead...
That the older generation sacrificed the younger by its blind, selfish prejudice in bringing about the World War, only to continue in its folly when the war was over, is the theme of "Merchants of Glory", playing at the Repertory Theatre. It is a cynical attitude, but the cynicism is of a sort that stimulates thought, and the attitude is splendidly sustained throughout the play, relieved by humor and exaggeration, but not once betrayed by sickening sentimental ability...
...other side of the Adriatic. In Rome, Naples, Padua; in Florence, Milan, Turin; in Bologna, Venice, Trieste and in many another city "Down with France!" and "Down with Jugoslavia!" resounded. In Rome 2,000 citizens of profound Fascist faith assembled at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier and swore blind devotion to any command of their cherished leader, Prime Minister Benito Mussolini...
Whitney Hall--Harvard-Yale Dance--8 to 2 o'clock--Dark Horses and blind dates...