Word: blindman
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...little white house near the Forest of Fontainebleau an aged, paralytic blind-man has lain for months listening to the poems of Walt Whitman. Sometimes his wife would read them to him, sometimes young Eric Fenby, a Yorkshireman like himself. But it was always Whitman the blindman asked for, preferably the later poems written when Whitman was paralyzed, dying. In Queen's Hall, London, last week, a great crowd marveled at the Songs of Farewell which blind Frederick Delius had written for double choir and orchestra. The words were Whitman's: How sweet the silent backward tracings...
...lavender before they have lived it out. And it is well for them that they do not try to keep up the pastimes of their salad days. To dance the Esmeralda in a Gibson hat, to pedal with ballooning skirts on a bicycle built for two, to play blindman's buff in midnight conservatories during dance intermissions-these are diversions that little become a shrunken or a wadded shape. Yet when a woman's sport is a man's sport-golf, for instance-she may become it like a man even after 20 or 40 years...
...ship of the line. The other, the Wal- rus, under Captain Flint, contains the ruffianly crew of drunken, careless, filthy, fighting buccaneers, whom Stevenson made famous. There is Long John Silver, the one-legged, still as ingratiating, still as desperate as ever. There is Pew, the crafty blindman, who sees with his ears. There is Billy Bones, the mate. Southward the two vessels sail. Captain Murray is intent on capturing that year's Spanish treasure ship, sailing from Porto Bello, laden with a million and a half pounds of bullion. Flint and his rum-swigging crew are to receive...
...picture subjects are comprehensive and the prints sharp. Lack of action, their main fault, is due, of course, to corresponding lethargy among undergraduates at this of year. When spring athletics invade Soldiers Field again we shall doubtless get our due share of action pictures. For even a blindman gets more thrills from a picture of a man sliding into third than one of Harvard losing a chess meet...