Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Christo-he never uses his surname-knows how to muffle a rampant motorcycle so that it acquires the petrified dynamism of a stuffed buffalo or a blind folded rhinoceros. He can embalm a slender sapling so that it lies with the mute pathos of Pearl White bound and gagged on the railroad track. His current winding sheet in Chicago enfolds a cadaver so Brobdingnagian that even the man in the street has been confronted by the undertaking...
...tends to do a bump and a grind when a mere bump would suffice. Nevertheless, she's an amusing sharp-tongued every-woman, who insists that her husband stand up to God like a man. And Eve favors hiding after the apple because "God is love and love is blind...
...symbiosis of Dale Carnegie and Billy Graham. These national superstitions have been prolonged in Agnew beyond their natural life by his blighting prosperity, his deals and millionaire pals, his anachronistic Main Street of steel and neon (replacing the old stone and shingle), his crippling good luck and gods who blind him with blessings...
...have read this brief selection as background for the rest of my discussion of the Deaf Dumb and Blind Boy concept. As far as I can tell, with a few rare exceptions, it is the scientist who usually explores different points of view, seeking some sort of objectivity. It seems that one of the most revealing ways of exploring one-self is to examine the limits and variances in perception. It is such an inquiry into ourselves that is at the roots of Deaf Dumb and Blind Boy. Suppose a person has none of the normal mechanisms of perception...
KING LEAR. Lee J. Cobb gives the best performance of his career in this revival by the Lincoln Center Repertory Company. Cobb's portrayal of the blind, incurably foolish Lear has an all-involving humanity from which an audience cannot withhold some of its deepest emotions...