Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Color Blind...
Husky, easygoing, and seemingly unperturbed by the fact that he has been blind ever since early childhood, Watson, 44, is a regular country-music Segovia. His casual, clean-cut virtuosity on the "flattop" (nonelectric) guitar is little less than awesome as he drives through such standards as Black Mountain Rag and Nashville Blues. His voice curls reedily and winsomely around Matty Groves, reminding some of the young Burl Ives. The only difference: Watson sings on pitch...
Riding the subways these days is becoming hazardous. So many people have their noses in the current best-selling book that getting on and off the train is like playing blind man's bluff in a closet--perhaps a watercloset, since what bumps into you is usually dirty. The book is Valley of the Dolls, and its theme, message, plot, and style are sex and Seconals...
Unquestionably, Susan Sontag tries too. The novel is arduously worked out, with the author always at the reader's elbow, adding explanations ("to a man wielding a microscope, his own seeing eyes are blind"), pointing out high spots, summing up. The only thing she could do (now) to help the book would be to write one of her well-reasoned essays to explain why she wrote...
...detective is looking for-is a fellow named Lew, the Imperial censor and pivotal power in the palace intrigues of the capital. Lew soon turns up dead, murdered by a delayed-action poison. The judge, of course, finds his culprit after dealing with a clutch of lively characters: the blind and beautiful Lan-lee, who collects crickets; Zumurrud, a half-caste belly dancer; Mansur, the arrogant, sybaritic leader of Canton's Arab community...