Word: blindman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some day, baby, when the blindman calls my name...
...group of 20 business executives recently attended a two-day workshop at Esalen in which they played "blindman's buff," one man with eyes open leading another who shut his eyes and contacted his surroundings through touch and smell. At one session, an apparel manufacturer hinted that he really resented his business, wanted to leave it. An Esalen girl staffer then sat opposite him, coaxed him into pretending that she was his business, finally got him to tell her "Go to hell!" He smiled broadly, conceded that he was "proud I could say it." "I am proud...
...take long for the patrol to discover that it had landed smack in the midst of a Viet Cong concentration. As skilled as Victor Charlie in the deadly blindman's buff of jungle warfare, Team Two soon realized that the enemy was following its every move. Each time Staff Sergeant Glide Brown Jr. halted his men, they could hear a couple of footfalls close behind-and then a bristling silence. As the jungle dusk deepened into blackness, Brown set up a defense perimeter and listened more closely. Above the keening of insects, geckos and night birds, he heard...
...spectators can now see, but the actors are meant to be in sightless confusion, playing blindman's buff. They begin a convulsively amusing, slow-motion night dance of straight-arming the air, pawing and fumbling for objects and people, mistaking identities, and trading unintended indiscretions under the misleading cover of darkness...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY (Golden). A useful little platter to have around the house before cutting the cake. Its 15 favorite games from Blindman's Buff to Simon Says will keep the children busy and mother blissful for a tuneful 20 minutes each side...