Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CRIMSON, May 17) is an unseemly performance by normal standards of taste and logic. They say that anyone who has waded through the arguments pro and con would find this protest incredible. They conclude that "there are only two possible explanations" for the manifesto. One is described as the blind, deaf liberalism of the thirties. The other is ignorance born of overwork...
...keep few fishes, Who is that rose in that blind house? And all slim, gracious blind planes are coming, They cry badly along a rose, To leap is stuffy, to crawl was tender...
...will never see. Indoors, she wanders around the dinner table like an overindulged house pet, grubbing for bits of food. The family talks of sending her for the rest of her life to an asylum for mental defectives-but then finds and hires a young teacher from Boston. Half-blind herself, the teacher knows that if she can give the child a sense of the existence of language, she can give her the world...
...competent modern critic could easily go to work. He might first allude to its use of alliteration ("few fishes," "few fingers"). Clearly the poem deals with the plight of modern man reaching out for love and innocence but mocked by impending death. Love is the rose stifling in the blind house of modern technology. Note the repeated theme of blindness, and the plane that will bring annihilation to the world. Like the world, human love has no future. And little religious comfort. (The fish was an early symbol of Christian faith, now reduced-hence "few fishes.") Mirth, too, has shrunk...
...Caesars," art and music had lost all real creative vitality. Power over the affairs of men had centered in a few enormous cities (megalopolis). Soon the masses of people, without hope or sense of form, would turn to a "second religiousness," clinging to blind faiths out of desperate need, while a series of world leaders backed by enormous military power would vie with one another over the destruction of civilization. During the final world rivalry, he wrote, "whole continents will be staked." The great powers "will dispose at their pleasure of smaller states, their territory...