Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the present crisis and . . . this bill must be modified in several respects and particularly in one -the extraordinary power granted must automatically come back to the people on a definite date. . . . But let me say to you that if the Republican Party in the year 1941 makes a blind opposition to this bill . . . it will never again gain control of the American Government...
...week's end, Acting President Castillo offered to put discussion of the frauds on the Congressional agenda, a step which would produce nothing but more wind. From his sickbed half-blind President Roberto Marcelino Ortiz advised the Radicals to collaborate with the Government and a Radical Deputy resigned his seat in protest. As the Ship of State veered sharply toward the shallows Juan Pueblo thought he saw on the tiller the crafty hand of onetime President General Agustín P. Justo, the only other man in Argentina with a plan...
Died. James Joyce, 58, great, expatriate Irish author (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake}, who called his native land "the old sow that eats her farrow"; after an abdominal operation; in Zurich. Nearly blind, Joyce fled before the Nazis to a village near Vichy, and in December to Zurich, where during World War I he wrote most of his masterpiece Ulysses...
There is something of a modern dictator in the character of John Brown, the same assurance that everything he does is foreordained, that his opponents are fighting an irresistible force, that they are merely blind to the righteousness of his cause. The picture goes to some pains to show the suffering that John Brown's fixation inflicted upon innocent people, even before the Civil War started. The raids in Bloody Kansas are as terrifying as the fire raid on London, and the clash between the two ideologies as apparently irreconcilable as their modern counterpart. By ending just before the outbreak...
...Europe has fallen is symbolized in the climax of that pilgrimage, a journey portrayed with a Chaucerian flair for the details which make characters seem real. He shows the Austrians of every class; the nouveau-riche, the poor, the priest, and the salesman--all like Teta seeking blind assurance of happiness beyond life and ignoring the hell on earth. The Pope, himself wracked by physical pain, like them turns his eyes away from the ground. Only the flotsam on the "wave of the future," Werfel and Teta's intellectual employers, care enough even to look at reality...