Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might expect, is in every way archtypically "absurd." Four characters with the unlikely names of Hamm, Clov, Nagg, and Nell (the last two spend the entire evening in barrels) perform against a backdrop of webbed string, barrels, one chair and a ladder. The play itself describes the collapse of blind Hamm's strange world. The cause of the disaster, we gradually understand, is Hamm's conceit. He is, as his name suggests, the abstraction of Actor whose solipsism has reduced his world to a shelter-like setting of old age (his barreled parents, Nagg and Nell) and crippled youth (Clov...
Most of its energies go to resolve less ultimate tragedies. Last week, for example, one trouble team was dispatched to help a nearly blind pensioner who had called to say he had lost faith in life; the team cleaned up his dingy room, bought him food, and above all found him the companionship he needed. Life Line is so vital an addition to Sydney that it is listed on the telephone directory's page of emergency numbers, along with the police and fire departments. And Christians in Brisbane and Adelaide have been inspired to organize similar groups, using Life...
Various sources have confirmed that eight Harvard students and two guests from Brown held the party with ten blind dates who were improperly signed into the House guest book. At about 10:30 p.m. one of the Brown students cut the back of a girl's sweater with a pair of scissors...
Unified Knowledge. According to Chicago's catalogue, social thought now is "understood to refer to the ideas concerning the intellectual and moral foundations of society." According to Economist-Historian John U. Nef, 64, the committee's co-founder chairman, the aim is to combat the kind of blind specialization that an Oxford don once illustrated by boasting: "At last I have written a really good book. Not only will nobody read it. Nobody can read...
...realism would have made them caricatures, or the gothic grotesques popular with the school-of-the-South. Even her first story, which begins with that old stock bit of scenery, the scrubbed cabin porch, convinces in the end that the genuine fabulist's art is involved. An old, blind Negro woman signs her land away for a federal project and is conned out of her money by a young opportunist of her own race. Is he the devil? The reader comes to think so and to share the dark fears of a superstitious old woman's spell-weaving...