Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deductions and other types of exception seem fair and sensible. But each relief provision indirectly increases the taxes of those not covered by it, and every attempt to provide equity for a special group makes for new inequities elsewhere in the tax code. The double exemption for blind taxpayers is a humane provision, but it creates a special privilege not shared by taxpayers who suffer other kinds of disabilities. The deductibility of mortgage interest fosters socially desirable home ownership, but it gives the home owner a special advantage over the renter, whose rent includes a share of the land lord...
...novel, Bergman's heroine is a shy young servant (Mai Zetterling) who falls in love with her master (Birger Malmsten). Like the hero of the novel, the master is an arrogant and atrabilious young bourgeois who hammers moodily on a grand piano and one day is stricken blind. Bitter in his affliction, he scorns her love. "Dare I aspire," he sneers, "to marry the housemaid?" Hurt to the heart, she leaves, and he is left to suffer at life's hands what she has suffered at his, to take the fall that pride traditionally portends...
...tickling the ivories in a busy beanery. The servant rises as the master falls: she goes to college and prepares to be a teacher. When they meet again, he is forced to swallow his pride and dissemble his heartburn. With humble irony he asks himself: "Dare a poor blind honky-tonk pianist aspire to marry a beautiful college girl...
Several members of Rosa's family, in the Urals town of Nizhni Tagil (pop. 338,000) were blind, Dr. Goldberg explained. Rosa herself learned to read Braille as well as the printed word, and made no sharp distinction in her mind between the two kinds of reading. Her senses of touch and sight had become practically interchangeable. Had Rosa developed her Braille touch so highly that she could feel the shapes of characters in letterpress printing? With a sheet of glass over a printed page, Rosa could no longer read fine print, but she could still make out headline...
...responsibility to the public when they chose to complete the press blackout. With three newspapers the city could at least keep an eye on its own government; and some of the economic effects of the strike, such as the slump in the entertainment business and the plight of 300 blind news-boys, would be mitigated...