Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arrowsmith employs low-key tones and rolling prose, but they only make his barbs the sharper. University administrators, he says, "have, quite literally, nothing to say," so they talk "dreary rubbish." Faculties are "caught both in the hideous jungle of academic bureaucracy and their own blind professional conservatism." Many doctoral dissertations are "patient parsing of the obvious and the irrelevant," yielding "laboriously trivial discoveries." It all adds up to "a vast educational enterprise built entirely upon a caste of learned men whose learning has no relevance to the young. It is a vision of madness accomplished...
...people in show business who spend their evenings working, brunch is virtually a way of life. Explains Actress Lee Remick, the blind wife in Broadway's Wait Until Dark: "It's about the only way my husband and I can entertain." So popular has brunch become that it is now being re-exported to Britain (where the word was coined at the turn of the century) as the latest...
...Blind Loyalty. Despite such protests, Wilson managed to win party endorsement of his stiff decree. "I suppose it's all right," said one bewildered Scottish Laborite, as he cast his district's ballots for Wilson. "After all, they are our government, and we've got to keep them in or we'll have the Tories...
...will develop very sophisticated capabilities of repair," promises Boatman. Mechanical hearts, pacemakers powered by the body's own energy systems, implanted television eyes for the blind, even hospitals in gravityless, germless space-all such things seem possible now that medical men are beginning to take full advantage of the expanding skills of modern technology...
...their draft-free status, are heightening the already severe labor shortage. Motorola Corp. Chairman Robert Galvin last week cited the labor squeeze as a prime reason why the company's earnings are expected to drop in this year's second half. To recruit, some companies resort to blind mailings; Automatic Electric Co. recently sent letters to people living near its Chicago plant, asking, "Are you happy with your job?" By contrast, the Pennsylvania Power & Light Co. has more engineering job applicants than it needs-because public-utility power engineers are draft-exempt...