Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your article "The Wild Flowers of Thought" [March 14], you mention a Russian proverb that according to you runs like this: "With seven nurses, the child goes blind." Obviously you had in mind the following Russian proverb...
...indeed be literally translated as "With seven nurses the child has no eye." However, it does not mean at all that the child in question goes blind, even in one eye. Rather it simply indicates that the child is without proper supervision, since no nurse keeps an eye on him, relying in that respect on other nurses...
...manages to fall truly in love with equally dull Silvia (Demetra Striggles), who luckily stands to inherit an enormous fortune from her fractious father (Tony Maier). Dona Sirena the matchmaker (Lucy Raudenbush), a magnificent grande dame whose social position is somewhat frayed for lack of funds, turns a blind, pragmatic eye to the goings-on of her niece Columbine (Anne Pederson). Miss Pederson's voice is sometimes weak, but she plays a very hot little piece...
...Pasternak's The Blind Beauty, a play, was published in an Italian magazine, Il Dramma,-the first of a series of three plays that Pasternak had intended as his "testament." Il Dramma Editor Giancarlo Vigorelli, in his introduction to the play, writes that he believes Pasternak's purpose was nothing less than "a religious, popular, social interpretation of the history of Russia, this 'Blind Beauty.'" Pasternak completed The Blind Beauty before his death nine years ago and left notes for the second play, but never got around to outlining the final drama...
...familiar to most Americans as its meaning. The Iranians expressed the same thought with different words: "Two midwives will deliver a baby with a crooked head." So do the Italians: "With so many roosters crowing, the sun never comes up." The Russians: "With seven nurses, the child goes blind." And the Japanese: "Too many boatmen run the boat up to the top of the mountain...