Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...killing of someone big. In April the murder of Martin Luther King ignited Negro riots in 125 cities that killed 46 people, injured 2,600, and required 55,000 troops to restore order. In June came the second Kennedy assassination, an unbelievable replay of the first, including a blind-chance killer, a meaningless motive, and national grief for a dramatic young leader cut down at the threshold of his powers...
...archetypal insurgent is John Elder, Massachusetts Democrat, Presbyterian minister and assistant to the dean of the Harvard Divinity School. Elder, 36, is married with five children, a nine-year-old partially blind foster child and a six-year-old Negro boy living with the family. He is president of the Arlington, Mass., Committee on Viet Nam. "As a clergyman, I suppose I'm most sensitive to some of the moral issues involved, and I have been very much impressed with the grounding of McCarthy's thought in Christian moral theology. He says the war in Viet...
...same time, "the continuing economic progress being achieved under capitalism should be a fact of great theoretical significance for any nondogmatic Marxist. It is precisely this fact that lies at the basis of peaceful coexistence, and it suggests, in principle, that if capitalism ever runs into an economic blind alley, it will not necessarily have to leap into a desperate military adventure. Both capitalism and socialism are capable of long-term development, borrowing positive elements from each other and actually coming closer to each other in a number of essential respects...
...commercial narrative, concerns are conveyed chiefly through genre films: westerns, war films, science-fiction and detective melodramas, among many others. The critical consensus has always been that genre restricts, an attitude shared still by condescending, if blind, people like Pauline Kael or Bosley Crowther. But for all the mediocre westerns churned-out which reaffirm genre as tantamount to cliche and formula, we have Hawks's Rio Bravo or Ford's The Searchers, both of which use genre background as a means of allowing their protagonists the fullest range of individual expression. For all the cheap detective thrillers, we have Lang...
...body, between the gross private tyranny of the coarse machine Enderby must serve every minute of his life and the hard bright indifference of that panorama of people and places outside. Ranged against each other, equally complex, equally demanding masters, the two forces almost crush Enderby, who is too blind to differentiate between them. But Enderby withstands the buffets of circumstance and wins by doggedly avoiding every intrusion of reality. The author attempts to compensate for Enderby's isolationism by stressing his integrity--Enderby is loyal to the lord he has chosen, his own neurosis-ridden mind and body...