Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that as the distinctions blur, so do our judgments, and we use aids of blanket categorization rather than individuality. Until our standard becomes one of the individual as an individual, our problem will remain; and, pessimistically, perhaps the greatest difficulty will lie with the white liberals, who are blind to their own prejudice, that of treating each black person as a Negro. In helping men to be considered as individuals in our society, and to mould the attitudes of that society, the white liberal must simultaneously change his own attitudes. Jonathan Gillman...
...could lead to a better understanding of many objectively important non-verbal states such as love, faith, and conversion. The writings of Durkheim and Weber were produced because of a realization of the importance of subjective states of mind. Perhaps knowledge such as Leary might provide could fill a blind spot concerning our inadequate notion of the type of transcendental subjective experience which has not only been the focus of traditional Western religion and many Asian cultures, but which also plays an important role is such diverse modern sociological phenomena as the growth of fascism, the existence of juvenile gangs...
...Blind Alley. Then there was James Meredith, still at the University of Mississippi at a cost of two lives, dozens of injuries and a U.S. Government investment of $4,500,000. Last week-three weeks after saying that he would not return to Ole Miss if conditions did not improve-Meredith announced that he would return for the second semester...
...triumph of good sense and planning. When it became obvious that Clemson would be required to accept Gantt, a call for law and order went out from business leaders, churchmen and newspapers all over the state. Convinced that Barnett had "led Mississippi up a blind alley," outgoing Governor Ernest Rollings told his legislature: "We must realize the lesson of 100 years ago and move on for the good of South Carolina and the United States...
...presidential inauguration, blinking in the cold sunlight like Tiresias. the blind seer of old, he took a great bard's ancient place beside the spiritual and temporal princes of his world. The voice, as it was whenever he "said" his verses, seemed far from poetic-dry, spare, matter-of-fact. But in the silence that followed any poem Frost spoke, an attentive listener was likely to find himself still a captive of its cadences. "The land was ours before we were the land...