Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Star of the evening was Cuban Ballerina Alicia Alonso, who only five years ago had to quit dancing because she was going blind (operated on three times, she lay flat on her back with eyes bandaged for a year, finally regained her sight). Alicia, the best of the younger classical dancers, had seldom done modern dance before. But, right after dancing the queen in Swan Lake, she returned to the stage as Lizzie, to sub for ailing Nora Kaye. Alicia, as much as Agnes, made Fall River Legend an opening-night success...
Though Sportscaster Bill Slater now ingratiatingly explains what is happening on the screen (apparently for the benefit of the blind), the film itself remains a brilliant solo on the optic nerve. Some memorable passages...
...respect it pays to the original talents of its own day. The 14 Van Gogh masterpieces on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery last week had all been painted in the last years of his life. Looking back, it was hard to see how anyone could have been blind to them...
...busiest men in Britain this week is a man named Godfrey Mowatt. He is tall, white-haired, 73 years old-and blind. With his hand lightly touching the shoulder of his guide, he is traveling to Glasgow, Edinburgh, Durham, Birmingham and Coventry to heal the sick...
Something Unusual. At the age of seven, Healer Mowatt accidentally blinded one of his eyes with a knife; he soon lost the sight of the other one as well. For the next decade he struggled with black despair. But gradually his courage and his faith in God won him such independence from his blindness that he was even able to ride to hounds with a friend guiding his horse and calling the jumps. In his twenties he devoted himself to full-time work with the blind. But it was not until about ten years ago that he began to discover...