Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...publicity, Raquel Meller has been the inspiration for much befuddled biography. It is, however, generally agreed that she was born in Saragossa, in Aragon, Spain, between 30 and 40 years ago. Some say that her parents were performers. She was taught to sew?at which art she went nearly blind once?and to sing Vespers in a convent, from which she escaped with the help of the gardener's ladder...
...Blind Goddess. Probably every cinema sets out more or less seriously to accomplish its purpose. Authors, directors 'and actors must believe in their product. The fact that this product is so often ridiculous does not alter matters. If a film does not prosper they can say it was far too subtle for the masses; if it does they can say it was Art. All of which is a preliminary to saying that The Blind Goddess does accomplish its purpose. It is a murder melodrama with the guilty one convicted via dictaphone. This sounds like any cinema; the film is however...
...married Bessie Bell, a Hadley (Mass.) girl, who had illustrated his first book of verse. A volume of stories, Master Frisky, woven about their pet collie, was well received and the blind man began to go back into the bright memories of a boyhood spent in woods and fields for the material of eight books of nature lore. Later he prepared animal stories by collecting and having his wife read him exhaustive data on the country and creature he wanted to write about. He wrote of bison, wolves, wild horses, reindeer, moose, bear, beaver. He laid his scenes in Kentucky...
...acute hearing has made him a delighted auditor at football and baseball sidelines. On the occasion of Hadley's 250th anniversary parade, he designed 30 floats, working out color schemes with his wife's aid. A radio enthusiast, he hopes soon to have broadcast to his 100,000 fellow blind people in the U. S., his autobiography, Hitting the Dark Trail...
...particularly to blame. This marginal educator has merely taken advantage of an opportunity. The crowds who give him this opportunity by jamming into the colleges should perhaps, only be commended for their seal. People valuing educators who desire primarily to educate will merely have to blind themselves to the shoddy varieties of education that the situation makes necessary until either the crowd ebbs or the number of educative educators miraculously increases...