Word: blindingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under the two-year-old, highly-touted sex-blind admissions policy, Harvard admits 1200 prepubescent teenagers and 400 transvestites. Explains William Fitzsimmons: "We sought the most sexually ambiguous students we could find." Radcliffe President Matina Horner declines comment...
...most Egyptians the Nile still rules, and a peasant from pharaonic days would find life little altered along much of the riverbank today: land is still divided into tiny plots, and the precious water is still raised from the river by having a cow or blind-folded water buffalo turn a primitive screw or a crude wooden lift balanced by a weight of mud. The ordinary meal of an Egyptian fellah still consists of foul beans; moulekieh, a soup made of the greens that grow among cotton plants, is a dish reserved for special days...
...FICTION: Blind Date, Jerzy Kosinski...
...could a simple country girl do all this and inspire clods, skeptics and a King-to-be with a blind, unswerving faith? Shaw is of no particular help. He has various characters say at various times: "There's something about the girl." All the rest is left to the actress who plays Joan. She must give the play a luminous soul. In the disastrous revival at Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater, Lynn Redgrave proves woefully incapable of that. She has the inspiring warmth of an undraped mannequin in a store window. Her metallic high-pitched voice...
DIED. Rahsaan Roland Kirk, 41, blind jazz musician famed for his ability to play three instruments simultaneously; of as yet undetermined causes; in Bloomington, Ind. Kirk played the manzello (a quasi-saxophone), the stritch (a horn resembling a dented blunderbuss) and the tenor sax together, combining themes of Brazilian Composer Villa-Lobos, Atonalist Arnold Schonberg and Bassist Charlie Mingus...