Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals. In the past year Leader Scott has had a dance band, has toured up & down the land, is proud that he knows how to pronounce names like Manitowoc, Wis. His tour has also taught him how to drive an automobile blind: to take one look at a parking space, back into it without taking another; to memorize a turn the first time, drive it shut-eyed thereafter. Raymond Scott still drives his band open-eyed-with results which, when audible, sound neat and crisp...
...January death claimed the author of famed stream-of-consciousness novel "Ulysses"- Irish, impoverished, nearly blind...
...after her first visit, Dr. Klein discovered that in addition to suffering from a tumor, his patient was several months pregnant. A month later, Mrs. Stemmer gave birth to a premature (three months) baby boy, weighing a little over a pound. The child was a hopeless idiot, deaf and blind...
...leader in a colony of revolutionists in Switzerland. He has decided that what he wants is a part in a revolutionary world change, but his soul is still troubled. He has a consuming pity for the mass of men, a great contempt for their rulers, but he lacks a blind faith in revolutionary slogans and formulas, and worse, he distrusts human nature, including that of revolutionists. "A man," he feels, "who is capable of ... brutal, bloodthirsty acts, and of calling them 'acts of justice,' such a man, when the battle's won, will never regain his decency...
Nehru's respect for Gandhi, whom he knows intimately, amounted almost to reverence. But it did not blind him to things he doubted or deplored. Gandhi's inhuman asceticism, his revivalistic virtuosity, appalled him no less than his medieval regard for the rich as God's "trustees," his conception of democracy as one's "complete identification with the poorest of mankind, longing to live no better than they." Such ideas, to a bourgeois, who was moving from nationalism to ideas of a new world order, from Socialism towards Communism, were not only incomprehensible but dangerous. Constantly...