Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LAUGHTER IN THE DARK. Love is literally blind in this black comedy about a wealthy Englishman (Nicol Williamson) who becomes obsessed with a lascivious movie usherette (Anna Karina). Williamson gives a strong performance as a weak man. The script-from Vladimir Nabokov's novel-is intelligent, and Tony Richardson's direction is undoubtedly his best since The Entertainer...
...commencement to opposition to the war. In addition, he said, 143 seniors had pledged to refuse induction if drafted. "The vast majority of Yale seniors want to serve and protect their country," he said, adding that "patriotism is not dead on the college campus today." But patriotism is not "blind obedience"; it is "the constant search for good and better policies. When old policies are shown to be wrong, patriotism generates efforts to implement new ones...
...party and the people. The Stalinist autocratic dictatorship, the tyranny of the security organs that for decades held society in an atmosphere of constant fear and terror, the concentration camps in which millions of innocent people perished, the criminal policy on nationalities under which whole nations were repressed, the blind alley our national economy had reached, the stagnation of science and culture, the low wage level, the low consumption level, the catastrophic housing crisis and many monstrous manifestations of the Stalinist dictatorship were condemned...
Cortazar's Cronopios and Famas is an assortment of free-floating insights of varying specific levity. Some never quite surface. They are the blind fish of his inspiration, stunted in the sealed caves of his most private fantasy...
...know that on his own. The arrogance involved in believing that one is qualified to set up external conditions which will allow another man to humanize himself is even greater. To justify disruption, the romantic must subscribe to the unlikely argument that undergraduates have been in some psychological sense blind, and that once a strike ends, they will emerge greatly changed...