Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fried Eggs. Daumier made lithographs, 3,958 in all, until he went blind at 65. But all along he was painting, though no more than a handful of his canvases were shown in public before the last year of his life. Compared with the more spectacular romantics, he seemed rough and unfinished. Nor did he understand the work of the new impressionists ("Who on earth forces you to show such horrors?" he asked a gallery owner who was exhibiting work by Monet). He was a superlative draftsman whose brush drew spare and strong, and whose preoccupation was people. His people...
...hawk-nosed, bearded officer in an absurd helmet gives a wild salute in a marvelous parody of Prussian militarism. A bulbous official with his face painted red rides by on the most overburdened of horses. His face is turned upward, his eyes blind to the two natives trudging at the horse's side...
...uninterrupted years, a powerful G.O.P. machine ruled Philadelphia-and stole it blind. Then, in 1951, a group of young, liberal Democratic reformers threw the Republican rascals out of office. During the next years, the last 5½ of them under Mayor Richardson Dilworth, the reformers, with their programs for slum clearance, improved park and recreation facilities, and road construction, made Philadelphia a model of municipal progress. But as of last week able, aggressive Dick Dilworth was fighting for his political life as his aging reform administration was swamped by scandal...
...light of new dimensions of reality, then atheism is not by itself an irreligious stance. It is the movement of the spirit by which religion itself may be saved from itself. Nothing could be more tragic than to find ourselves hugging our own sanctified, even pseudo-Christian idol, blind and hostile to the living revelation of God's mystery in our own time...
Increasingly, his raw nerves lay close to the surface. In fits of blind rage, he slapped his puppet President Joaquin Balaguer, kicked palace functionaries in the groin, spat on his assistants. But he still had an instinct for survival. Aware that the main threat of internal revolution lay within the literate middle class, he kept up the pressure of arrest and harassment to prevent organized opposition. He even took on the Roman Catholic Church, which at last went into open opposition...