Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They cannot see - but they hunger to learn. A blind college physics student wants to know what is in a four-part book on quantum mechanics written in Greek, Latin, German and English. A sightless theologian needs to absorb Reinhold Niebuhr's The Nature and Destiny of Man. A farmer must learn the contents of Modern Fruit Science. An aspiring salesman pleads to know The Five Great Rules of Selling...
...only practical way to get such knowledge from the printed page into the brain of a blind man is through his ear (Braille is hopelessly slow to read, expensive and bulky to produce). Luckily, any blind college student, professional man or businessman in the U.S. can have the textbooks he is studying read aloud to him, and free at that. Recording for the Blind, Inc., a nonprofit group of 32 staffers and 2,400 dedicated volunteers, will put any educational book on 7-in., 16⅔-r.p.m. vinylite discs and send it out to whoever needs...
...some of her contemporaries with the sensation of distress. The folk circuit, her "road to communicate," is a lifetime's journey from the days when she performed as a piano soloist with the Denver Businessmen's Symphony. Seattle-born and Denver-bred, she was influenced by her blind father, who emceed a local radio show ("a potpourri of philosophy, piano and good music," she recalls...
...blind and baffled gull...
...opening sequence that roughly sets the tone, two hoods, contracted by Con Man Ronald Reagan, show a fine flair for menace as they trail Cassavetes to a school for the blind, where they pummel a winsome blind receptionist. In another scene, they threaten to parboil a man sweating off pounds in a steam cabinet, thus warming up for the moment when they thrust leggy Angie Dickinson headfirst out the window of a skyscraper hotel room, trying to make her tell what happened to the $1,000,000 swag from a mail robbery...