Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most animals are color blind. The matador's cape is bright red only for the human actors and audience; the bull would be even more enraged by a pure white one. Even among animals which can distinguish color, notably fish and birds, brilliant markings do not influence the female's choice of a mate. They serve primarily to intimidate other males. The barnyard turkey's puffing and strutting are intended to advertise his dominance, maintain his social position, defend his territory. The female turkey responds to bluff, not beauty...
...world's most sensational vice trial. Poet Francis Thompson, an opium addict, was reduced to destitution, and died leaving behind his minor masterpiece of repentant self-martyrdom, The Hound of Heaven. Poet James Thomson (The City of Dreadful Night) crept starving to the bed of a blind friend, who stretched out his hands and withdrew them covered with the blood of Thomson's fatal hemorrhage. Simeon Solomon died in a poorhouse; consumption killed Ernest Dowson (Cynara) at 33. Brilliant Aubrey Beardsley, whose delicate, sensual illustrations for Wilde's Salome became more famous than the play itself, died...
...this-we know we're needed and we willingly lend all our support, but we're not blind to existing conditions. As for myself, give me some real nursing, instead of K.P. for the duration...
...Blind Spots Revealed...
...main blind spots in the peace plans," stated the psychologist, "is an immaculate disregard for human nature." There is no mention of children or education, no mention of public opinion or democracy or the Four Freedoms or the common man. Until the politicians at San Francisco realize the importance of human nature, peace plans are doomed to failure...