Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This fascination with the camera's potential is evident in all Stieglitz's early prints. In "Sun Rays--Paula--Berlin" (1899), he was seized with the camera's ability to capture the texture of wallpaper and the bands of light broken by a venetian blind. In his enthusiasm, the young Stieglitz photographed at night and in the rain--things he had been told were impossible...
...because he would not (Exodus 12:29)? Or kill everybody on the earth except the few people in Noah's Ark? Surely the slaughtered children were not to blame! Your sectarianism may be less crude than at the Rhode Island college, but sectarianism is basically the same everywhere--a blind and blinding belief which will not permit the sectarian to make free use of accumulating knowledge or other evidence which disproves or casts doubt on the basic sectarian commitment...
...Religion is free to evaluate--free to accept or reject on the basis of quality alone. It is truth-seeking. Adherents believe that an earnest, intelligent search yields far more religious truth than the blind acceptance of the tradition of any sect...
...Blind to Danger? Thus far, Peru's edgy military has kept its mind on the Communists. Last week a force of 600 troops was closing in on the main body of guerrillas, estimated at about 500 men, in a mountainous area 300 miles east of Lima. But the military men are anxious for a clear indication of Belaúnde's leadership. "Most of us do not want another military dictatorship,' said one general, "but if the civilians are blind to the Communist danger, we would feel duty-bound to step...
...reference to the world in which he has lived, a packet of old photographs. But he cannot escape himself, and as he lifts his eyes to the barren wall before him, he comes face to face with the image of his own deadpan likeness, with a patch over one blind eye. Except for that moment of revelation, the actor's face is never seen; he plays the rest of the 22-minute film with his back to the camera, relying on his narrow shoulders, dragging feet and sensitive hands to express his total desolation...