Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...encouragement to the Cambridge Planning Board and the thousands of other citizens interested in preserving what little space remains for quiet contemplation within metropolitan areas. Like so many other things, urban recreational space has been needlessly swept away in the wake of blind expediency...
...Neill's symbol of the West, Marco stands for greed, hypocrisy, ravening ambition, hard-nosed practicality and blind materialism. For the East, the Great Khan and his court personify beauty, love, wisdom, art, and an all-illuminating spirituality. No one can play, in dramatic terms, with such loaded dice. The Lincoln Center Repertory revival salvages what it can by turning Marco into a handsomely mounted, lavishly costumed Marcorama...
...still disbelieving world. "Eat your words," Clay howled at the shaken sportswriters. "Liston is in the hospital and here I am, still pretty as can be. That big bear was an amateur. He was scared of me. He couldn't even hit me when I was half blind. If he wants to fight me he will have to work his way up. I can beat any fighter in the world. I am the greatest. I am the prettiest...
...Blind Landing. There is another faction in the space administration that brooks no delays, that favors sending men to the moon without advance in formation about its surface. Wernher von Braun, head of the Marshall Space Flight Center, thinks that the first lunar-landing vehicle can make its touch down cautiously, its rocket engine slowing it almost to a halt while the crew men select a good place to land. If they see their landing gear disappearing into impalpable dust, they can rise, move sideways and try another landing somewhere else...
...forces triumph in Anna, played with slow-burning sensuality by Gunnel Lindblom. Anna's substitute for love is blind animal warmth. "How nice that we don't understand each other," she babbles, unburdening herself to the sullen waiter (Birger Malmsten) she has invited into bed, dumbly grateful that all they have in common is the language of desire. Then, "I wish Ester were dead." To hasten the process, she lets Ester come in and watch...