Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Watertown may be the only place in the world with musical traffic lights. When the red and yellow lights signal "walk," a bell begins to ring, and blind people cross the street like everyone else...
...blind people are students and teachers at the Perkins School for the Blind, a private school with classes from kindergarten through senior high school. Perkins is Helen Keller's Alma Mater. It was the first school for the blind in the United States, and the first to educate a blind-deaf child...
Inside one of the red-brick buildings, a classroom door is marked "typing class." Underneath the sign, on a piece of heavy yellow-white paper, some raised dots spell "typing class" in Braille. A blind student writes on a Perkins Brailler, a six-key typewriter designed at the school 15 years ago. She types each Braille character by pressing a combination of keys at the same time, Key number one, for example, is the letter "a." Keys one and two together are the letter...
...case after case in past years, the court answered the question by throwing out convictions for demonstrations in public places. Yet the court could not blind itself to the ominous change in civil rights protest-from early nonviolence to last year's holocaust in Watts. And a changing judicial attitude became apparent last February, when a bare majority of only five Justices reversed the convictions of Louisiana Negroes who had refused to leave a segregated public library. The sharpest dissenter was the court's stoutest liberal, Justice Hugo Black. Said he: "It has become automatic for people...
...book is his meticulously observed birth of a kangaroo in southeastern Australia: it emerges as a pinkish, gleaming blob no longer than the first joint of a man's little finger, and is deposited on the mother's tail. Practically an embryo, the baby must drag itself blindly up through the fur on its mother's stomach and crawl into the marsupial pouch. Throughout, the mother kangaroo remains indifferent to the baby's struggles. This, says Durrell, is "the equivalent of a blind man, with both legs broken, crawling through a thick forest...