Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...judge: "He thinks he is the be-all and end-all of wisdom. He is a sort of judicial panjandrum and, therefore, never hesitates to act as judge, prosecutor and jury." Then, where McCormack had not, Manny Celler named his man: "It is just as well that justice is blind; she might not like some of the things done in her name by Judge Wryzanski...
...live in," he explains, "is loathsome to me. But I feel one with the men who suffer in it." Camus began, politically and philosophically, where his generation stopped: at despair. But in spite of and in a way because of despair, he continued to rebel against Fascism, Communism, blind faith, resignation, and the universe itself--because each of them increases instead of diminishing his despair. Against Marcel, who quarreled with his choice of Spain as an example of tyranny, Camus vented an anger barely hinted at in The Rebel, and only a little more obvious in The Fall, an anger...
...throughout Virgin Spring, obsession is the key character trait. Ingeri, the slut who, in envy of the girl, casts the spel! that precedes her rape and death, excuses the murdrers by saying Odin has possessed them. The parallel to the householder's mindless slaughter of the murderers and blind dragging of his followers back to the scene of his daughter's death, is surely intentional. Obsession and tension make compelling viewing; they do not make persuasive or perceptive art. Bergman wanders instead into a morass of behavioristic description which robs his stories of meaning and depth...
Graduates of all sorts and undergraduates of the better sort will doubtless spring to the defense of sacred custom. They will fill pages of the Alumni Bulletin with eloquently anguished letters. They will speak from blind, unreasoned prejudice, and it is well that they will do so. A College is not a mere trafficking in books and lectures, a simple commerce in examinations and parchments: it is a way of life, encompassing...
...ideological position, and Mr. Phillips promised to avoid further confusion of the two roles--as President of the non-ideological S.C., and as a member of such conservative groups as the Young Americans for Freedom (which, by the way, has denounced liberals as "the diehards, the misinformed, and the blind...