Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major source of dates. ("After all, you've got Radcliffe," a girl commented.) Because of Mount Holyoke's separation from men's colleges, social life is strictly a weekend activity; since they are not in frequent contact with boys, many girls-especially freshmen-must rely heavily on blind dates to meet boys...
...French Revolution was one of the last independent productions of David Wark Griffith, inventor of the "spectacular" and a pioneer of film direction in America. The actress recalls one scene that was particularly realistic as opposed to the stylized tradition of the time. In her role as a blind country girl, she had to grope along the wall of a cellar in which some revolutionaries had imprisoned her. Suddenly she drew back her outstretched hand; a rat from the woodwork had nibbled on her fingers. "Mr. Griffith was excited with the possibilities of a horde of rats, and photographed them...
...minutes later, a cluster of exploding pins popped and the spacecraft spread its, wings into the hard sunlight. All this was reported by telemetry to JPL's 85-ft. dish antenna in South Africa and relayed to the control center at the lab. "We were flying blind during lift-off and injection," says Bill Collier, Assistant Project Manager. "But about the time the panels came open, there was a shift of facial styles from worried scowls to big fat grins." Mariner II was safely delivered, apparently thriving in its adult environment, and on its way to Venus...
...Love is blind: he cannot see her indifference. He dashes off a burning billet-doux. But she seems to miss the point. "Your letter," she cheerfully replies, "was well phrased." He rents a room that looks right into hers, makes friends with her family, pops over for dinner daily. But the closer he comes the more distant she be comes. One night at the cinema, overstimulated by Les Nouvelles de Fox Movietone, he manfully attempts to smooch. She brushes him away like a mosquito...
...last poem in the collection provides a striking contrast to "During the Eichman Trial." "A Solitude" dissects a fleeting emotion: the poet sees a blind man, and is overcome with a feeling of "strange joy/to gaze my fill at a stranger's face." It is a remarkable poem, and it illustrates Miss Levertov's talent to perceive and see meaning in the seemingly inconsequential aspects of our lives...