Word: blinds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Walter Millis described it, America's trip down the road to World War I was something like a blind deaf-mute's stumbling down a dark country lane on a foggy night. So far, our policy in the present European war has been just as dim and uncertain. There have been a few specific actions on the part of the Roosevelt Administration, but no one knows just what basic policy is behind them. If the 1940 campaign doesn't throw light on the situation, it will be just about impossible to vote intelligently...
...opinion, the isolationists who oppose such assistance are wilfully blind to the dangers of the future and unduly confident as to the degree of protection which the ocean provides against the impact of either propaganda or political pressure...
...Blind man," groaned the Versailles potentates...
...experience is to survive and have any value, and continue to be communicated by art, it must be cleansed of the twilight of vague romanticized feeling and of the received idea. ... I believe The Blaze of Noon to be an early sign of the change." The narrator is a blind masseur named Louis Duncan, who tells what happened in the Cornish household of his client, Mrs. Nance, after she had called him down from London to give her treatments. In 15 years of blindness, Duncan has learned to use his other senses with extraordinary acuteness, has even learned to repress...
...distinction. But its serious drive is in a love affair between Duncan and Sophie-an affair begun by Sophie's perverse need and boredom, matured by Duncan's perception, patience and intelligence. The story suggests not only the particular value of the erotic experience for the blind man but the civilized human sanity of his conduct. And-since Author Heppenstall does not cheat, or barely does at the happy end-the particular hell through which this love affair has to pass arises precisely from Duncan's psychology of blindness...