Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sparkling meadow at the edge of Kenya's Elburgon Forest, a husky African district officer named Eliud Mahihu asked one of the 200 assembled Kikuyu tribesmen to close his eyes, then led him through the crowd with a broom handle. "He is like a blind man because he has shut his eyes," shouted Mahihu. "If you have taken an oath with the Land Freedom Army, you have shut your eyes too!" By sundown, 130 men and women had stepped forward to renounce their membership in the shadowy army. Suspected members who held back faced arrest and imprisonment...
...helpless in the face of some great farce moving without him) too is guilty of an awful lack of understanding. He fails to comprehend the girl's neurotic hallucination at exactly those key places where his understanding of her predicament would have ended the cycle of antipathy and blind cruelty, rather than perpetuating it into forever...
Family legends are well told; Daniel's aunt, almost blind, terrorizes the home-folks by veering around town in her Studebaker, and lectures severely all cops who stop her; one of Lucy's Quaker forebears was renowned for advising a burglar, "Friend, I am going to shoot right where thee is standing." The author's charged, highly colored prose is almost always impressive, but occasionally it slops over into italics and suggests Robert Penn Warren at less than his best...
...billows onstage, blanketing the assembled military might of two or three amateur swordsmen, and the first eight rows of the orchestra. In a hilariously interminable death scene, Jonathan Miller ricochets around and around the stage in the manner of a man alternately caught in a revolving door and staggering blind drunk out of a bar. Finally he expires, with a line that promises to become deathless. "Now is steel 'twixt gut and bladder interposed." His adversary asks the rhetorical question most often put to Shakespearean corpses: "Oh saucy Worcester, dost thou lie so still...
Unpaid Hardware. But Ahmad could be generous. Following the Koran's injunction on charity, he would spend hours daily under a tree in his palace courtyard receiving all comers, handing out money to widows, orphans, old soldiers, the halt and the blind. His several ramshackle palaces were filled with unworkable plumbing, gilt furniture, fading carpets and hundreds of clocks, all stopped...