Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faith isn't blind," says pretty Pat Scheele, 21. "It's real. We have something to hold on to. I don't know where I will be next year, but God knows, and that gives me a good, secure feeling...
...Good Light, by Karl Bjarnhof. A moving novel about an adolescent boy in an institution for the blind who slowly loses his sight but keeps his sanity and love of life...
...Year poetry contest results were proclaimed. This year the subject of the 31-syllable waka competition was "Light,'' a topic chosen by Emperor Hirohito himself. There were more than 23,000 entrants, the most ever, and the 15 winners (Japan's royalty is excluded) included a blind lady who submitted her poem in Braille, and a humble lady day laborer (of a class known to Japanese as anko, which is, in turn, a fish that is mostly mouth and stomach). The Emperor's waka (which always seems to lose a certain something in translation) went...
...Good Light, by Karl Bjarnhof. A moving sequel to a fine novel (The Stars Grow Pale), the book tells of an adolescent boy in an institution for the blind, who slowly loses his sight but retains his sanity and love of life...
...been writing it for 30 years, he can neither define literary criticism nor guess its aims. Yet Tate confidently jabs his critical stiletto into a wide range of men and institutions, from Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson ("the light-bearer who could see nothing but light, and was fearfully blind") to criticism itself (it "is in at least one respect like a mule: it cannot reproduce itself, though, like a mule, it is capable of trying...