Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Biafran, for defending his freedom against impossible odds, demonstrating that the conscience of the world is a figment of some blind optimist's imagination, and for showing the rest of us heroism and determination equal to anything since the fall of Jerusalem to the Romans...
...same theme and sent it to Frederick with the title Musical Offering. Soon after this, Bach's overworked eyes as well as his rugged constitution began to fail. Two operations on his eyes only weakened him further. Finally, at 65, just before dying, he lay in bed, totally blind, and dictated his last composition: the chorale Before Thy Throne I Stand...
...years ago, Poet James Dickey, whose Buckdancer's Choice won the 1966 National Book Award for Poetry received a letter from a friend who had visited a home for blind children and watched as they smashed their fists against their eyes to produce a momentary shock of light. Their agony tormented him so much that he wrote, in the November Harper's, a brilliantly brooding poetic fantasy, The Eye-Beaters. It was made particularly jolting because of Dickey's marginal notations, written with the stark understatement of a wire-service reporter. "A therapist explains why the children...
Confounded once more by a CIA coup, which deposes his friend Demasiado, he suddenly sees his carefully dedicated life about to be destroyed by political duplicity. Fleetingly, the U.S. Embassy becomes a symbol of the blind arrogance and wastefulness of all great powers. "He walked around the corner and saw the Embassy, every light on, the only building on the street with a bulb burning, a beamless lighthouse with all its light shining in on itself...
What happens when blind bids are asked on as yet unrated films? ... I believe the Motion Picture Code and Rating Plan is undesirable, unconstitutional, unworkable, impractical, uneconomical and an attempt to pass the buck...