Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kilson's out-of-hand dismissal of the legitimacy of black student protest was little more than embarrassing. His was a blind reaction that saw the black students' criticisms as something of a personal vendetta; and while attributing to the black students "anti-intellectual" attitudes, his remarks were disappointingly sophomoric. Dr. Kilson's reactions are particularly surprising in light of the posture he assumed with regard to black protest in an article of the Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs ("Responses to Blackness: Negro Americans and Africa...
Cities are immensely vulnerable; their technology is fragile and their massed populations are interdependent. Yet they also possess a stubborn, stunning and almost blind will to endure. New York did not dissolve in chaos last week. It will probably not fall apart this week or next, or the week after that. With luck, it will never break down entirely. Nonetheless, a nation that prides itself on pragmatism and problem-solving can afford only at its peril to ignore the immense-and immensely complex-challenge of making its cities habitable, enjoyable and governable. Mumford told a Senate committee last year, "Unless...
...handed as they are empty-headed. Their few scraps of fact have only served to compound the confusion. What kind of man would violate women with wine bottles and brooms? How could he gain entrance to so many apartments without using burglar tools? How can he murder with such blind, mindless ferocity and still leave no usable clues...
...Heart is a Lonely Hunter--Very weighty stuff, with the sensitive Alan Arkin as a sensitive young man who happens to be blind. At the ASTOR, Tremont St. near Boylston...
Meanwhile, Sisson's secretary, who quit her previous boss for continually "touching" her, incites Sisson into making groping passes. As the sexual tension increases, Sisson suffers double vision and temporary blind spells and takes to blindfolding himself with his secretary's scarf. At an office tea party, Sisson's wife and secretary delightedly lie down on Sisson's desk while the brother touches them with gentle intimacy. The unseeing Sisson stiffens catatonically in his chair and may just possibly be in his death throes...