Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...streets are long and the street song. The birds fly over the days fly along. The birds all new A new day now for boy and girl for man and lady. This poetic pabulum somehow misses the tragic sense of life remembered from, say, Old Mother Hubbard or Three Blind Mice, and is, moreover, unchantable. Furthermore, those writing for today's young would not dream of mentioning a scandalous one-woman population explosion like Mother Hubbard and her substandard housing, and no farmer's wife would be allowed to behave so sadistically toward three handicapped mice...
...Civil defense plans are falsely reassuring and tend to blind people to the horror of the situation...
...close to the TV-you'll ruin your sight." "Hold that book farther away from your eyes!""Stop drawing in the dark! You'll go blind." Such commands and warnings are screamed out millions of times a day, and they are all wrong, an ophthalmologist told the American Medical Association at its Denver meeting last week...
...curtain is up. The theater is dark. A woman screams. Someone eerily whistles Three Blind Mice. Pistol shots clap the air for the 3,745th time. Thus Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap moved into its tenth year in residence in London's Ambassadores Theater last week...
...voice is disconcerting, like a blind man's cane, tapping and feeling its way down the colored lines...