Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is the music of Schumann, Brahmns, and Liszt as a backbone to hold up the pulp surrounding it. At certain points, "Song of Love" reveals immense potentialities for the development of screen musical biographics in terms of a blind audience. This is a step forward. Forgetting the Kern and Porter films, one may look with encouragement at the progress made from the lives of chopin, Schubert, and Gershwin to that of Schumann. Auditory progress, to be sure, but still progress...
...Judas" theme appears again and again, with the focus always on the death money, which slowly leaves him to give happiness to other people. He gives a blind man a pound, a poor woman five pounds to return to her home in England, and even the money that he throws away boastfully feeds hungry people. Wonderful dramatic scenes highlight the movie-Gyppo, the informer, drops some pieces of silver at the betrayed man's wake. They have not yet begun to suspect, but suddenly Gyppo sees himself as Judas. It is the drama of self-recognition, in which a potentially...
Toward the end, O'Brien was told that there was a chance he might live. But he would probably be blind. Calmly he took up the study of Braille. After he knew he was dying, he made a final "balancing of the books." He counted up more credits than debits, and told his readers: "I feel a darling of the gods...
...Forward, in the cockpit, the pilot and copilot were wrestling with the controls to keep the big ship's nose up. They were flying blind. The needle registering altitude bounced crazily between 200 and 800 feet. The plane was bobbing too fast for the instrument to keep up. . . . I tried to swallow but couldn't. . . . My legs were numb from the hips down, partly from the pressure of the safety belt cutting into my belly, but mostly from fear...
...Freshman Committee directs new members into the other activities of the House, while the Undergraduate Faculty committee tutors high school students, teaches English to immigrants, reads to blind students, and instructs groups or individuals...