Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stories inevitably spread about miraculous cures effected by the acacia's water. A blind woman said her sight was restored after the acacia's liquid was poured into her eyes. Open sores on a child's face were reported washed away. Arthritic pain and lung congestion apparently disappeared after sufferers drank the fluid. Soon busloads of visitors were arriving at the Morse property from as far away as San Antonio and Monterrey, Mexico...
...African, I hope your story will serve as the writing on the wall for the thousands of my fellow white South Africans who will no doubt read it. Perhaps the greatest tragedy in South Africa is that there are so many sensible white South Africans who turn a deliberately blind eye to one of history's saddest, most inhuman situations...
There was Bill Bones and Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver; Blind Pew was flailing the darkness with his crooked Cane, and Robin Hood with his merry outlaws was routing the Sheriff of Nottingham's lackeys. As visitors to the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Me., soon realized last week, this was no mere art exhibition: it was a trip back through all the hallowed haunts of childhood, from Treasure Island to Sherwood Forest to Stirling Castle. The artist? None other than famed Illustrator Newell Convers Wyeth...
Zoom to the Crow's-Nest. High-flown romance was N. C. Wyeth's special domain, but he infused it with a meticulous realism all his own. The inn in the background of the scene of Blind Pew was modeled on Wyeth's boyhood home in Needham, Mass., where he himself first read Treasure Island. "He was also a man who felt deeply about the tragedy of life," says Son-in-Law Peter Hurd, pointing out that Blind Pew was modeled on a blind man Wyeth knew. Far from mere illustration, it is a profound study...
...almost every case, they were unnamed and unknown to their killers, the incidental and impersonal casualties of uncharted battlefields that exist only in demented minds. They were sacrifices to the irrational, wherein lies, as it always has for reasoning man, the ultimate terror. They were victims of the blind fury of the psychotic murderer...