Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University is fully capable of turning a blind eye, that is, implicitly condoning the last vestiges of Old Harvard's social hierarchy," Robinson says...
...novel Milton in America, Ackroyd has the 17th century Puritan poet and radical escaping to New England after the collapse of the English revolution that he helped foment--itself a catastrophic result of the Protestantism set loose by Henry VIII's divorce. Instead of writing Paradise Lost, the blind and defeated rebel arrives near Plymouth in 1660. As he proceeds to plant an intolerant city-state on American soil, this Milton sneers at the memory of More, calling him an idolater who had had his head chopped off. And yet Milton must repress his delight in Utopia, More...
...most recognized photograph from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, a little boy stands in the rubble, both hands raised in a blind surrender. His back shelters him from the view of a man with a gun, his shoulders suspecting his doomed fate. Bak was about the same age as this child pictured, and chose to honor in his paintings this image of all children sacrificed in the Holocaust. The little boy, the symbol of the universal purity of the heart, is the main subject of over 12 pieces in the exhibit, each time pictured in the same pose. The desensitization...
Arthur Gallagher, Brown's director of residential life, was not available for comment yesterday. The Brown Daily Hereald reported last week that he accepted the ACLU's finding that there was an imbalance, but he maintained that rooming assignments were random, completely blind to race and ethnicity...
...blind centering pass by captain Craig Adams from the back of the right face-off circle deflected off the skate of a Brown defenseman and went between Stirling's pads...