Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cubicar looks, says the London Daily Sketch, "like a motorized greenhouse without the tomatoes" [May 10]. The Sketch critic is blind. The two dolls in the front seat of the Cubicar are as pretty a pair of tomatoes as I've seen displayed in quite a spell...
...horse -and the stewards gave it some credence by questioning other horsemen whose charges had been stabled near the Dancer's barn during Derby week. But Dancer's Image is a grey, an unusual color among thoroughbreds. He also is 1,050 Ibs. of fighting muscle; anybody blind enough to invade his stall by mistake would be taking his life in his hands-especially if he tried to force a pill down the horse's throat...
KENTUCKY: Blind in Duck Hollow Eb Herald would like to see it, but he can't: the sweet William and May apple and columbine bright on the ledges, the dogwood dotting the green rise to the west, the clear bulge of Duck Creek as it purls over the smooth stones through Duck Hollow. Eb ? his real name is Elbert, but one doesn't call a mountain man that ? is 56, and he went blind seven years ago. (Degenerative blindness afflicts many Appalachian dwellers as a result of in breeding.) Lank and long-striding in his pale blue...
...This tirade is directed again at humanity in general. Specifically, Wylie's complaint is that man does not live as the animal he was in tended to be; instead he has buried his natural instinct under phony shibboleths such as religion, capitalism, Communism, belief in progress and blind faith in science...
White sat out World War II in an Irish farmhouse, and later settled on Alderney in the Channel Islands. He learned how to sail, and he learned the deaf-blind language so that, year after year, he could entertain members of a deaf-blind society whom he invited to Alderney. In 1957 he revised The Once and Future King, softening a nasty lampoon of his nasty mother (Queen Morgause, the witch...