Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...struck the political spark is balding Aime Forand, 64. One of 16 children born to a New England loom fixer, Aime Forand quit grade school to help support his blind father ("I know what it means to scratch"), went on to become a Democratic Congressman from Rhode Island. For 22 unspectacular years, Forand was barely noticed in Washington-until he suggested that the social security system be expanded to cover health insurance for the aged. Forand's plan: boost social security taxes ¼% for employees and ¼% for employers, use the funds to finance surgical costs...
Describing the "Voice of Broadway" as "an unindexed catalogue of malice, reportage, and odd bits of misinformation," the Post said: "[The 'Voice'] goes in for the blind item, the sick item, and the vengeance item . . . Yet it has never succeeded in making or breaking any performer or public figure. Nor has Kilgallen herself ever become a figure of influence or intrigue, except among pressagents, who fear her as they fear almost anyone who can type...
...island of Cyprus, they were invited to preach before the Roman proconsul, Sergius Paulus, whose court magician set to heckling the two missionaries. At that, Paul turned on the man and denounced him so eloquently that Proconsul Paulus was converted, and his magician, according to Acts, went blind. After that encounter, Paul seems to have changed his name to its Roman form and become leader of the mission; the author of Acts begins to refer to Paul and Barnabas, instead of Barnabas and Saul...
Here again are Durrell's ravening women: handsome, black-browed Justine, a nymphomaniac with a neurotic need of intrigue; large-eyed, blonde Clea, who, when stripped, looks as "naked and slender as an Easter lily"; and blind Liza, still dotty with love for her suicide brother Pursewarden. Here, too, are his strangely ineffectual men: Nessim, the Coptic millionaire, in trouble both with his wife Justine and the British government; Dr. Balthazar, the homosexual cabalist; Mountolive, the stiff-necked British ambassador; and Darley, the Irish schoolteacher, who tries to put together the carnal jigsaw puzzle of his friends...
...attributed to acedia, or boredom with life; Balthazar suggests that the suicide was caused by his failure as an artist; in Mountolive, the motive becomes purely political; and now in Clea, it seems established that Pursewarden took his life in an ironic expiation of his incestuous love for his blind sister. Durrell's point: "Truth is what most contradicts itself...