Word: blindingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students was created to supervise Harvard's compliance with the new regulation. Together they have been responsible for introducing many important improvement such as ramps, curb cuts, wheelchair lifting devices, an accessible microbus providing on-campus transportation for the ambulatory impaired and, soon, a tactile map for the blind. Numerous modifications have been planned for all the faculties over the next two years...
...blind individual might only want to be told when it is safe to cross or he may want to help crossing, in which case the sighted person should allow the blind person to take hold of an elbow. One should never feed, pet or otherwise distract a guide dog unless expressly permitted by its master. Nor should one grab a blind person's cane or the arm holding...
...there are situations in which it is difficult for a disabled individual to initiate a request for assistance. A blind person, for example, may not be able to judge accurately when to cross the street, especially at unusually shaped intersections or when there is a great deal of confusing noise. A guide dog isn't much help here; it is trained not to cross the street but rather to stop at the curb and wait for its master's next command. In a situation where it is hard for a blind person to discern when to cross a street...
...brilliantly traced the wellsprings of slang and ethnic argot. But in larger matters he was more naive than the booboisie. When real goose-steppers came along, Mencken failed to perceive the German danger and, as Fecher notes, "brushed off Nazi treatment of the Jews." His literary criticism was sometimes blind to contemporary talent: he thought Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was "full of pink hooey" and found no more sense in Faulkner than in "the wop boob, Dante." He never understood the scars of the Depression and compared the New Deal efforts of Franklin D. Roosevelt to those...
...love at least once, usually with idyllic effect. The liaisons are delightfully improbable. Antagonists Reggiani and Morgan both carry on with gorgeous lovers half their age before making a beeline for each other; Lechat's daughter (Christine Laurent) marries his partner (Philippe Leotard) right after their first blind date. Though Lelouch is too discreet to show any of these couples in bed, he composes his own eroticism out of Normandy sunlight, knowing glances and Francis Lai's typically catchy musical score...