Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feel they are needeed for work. There are already millions of elderly people who don't want to retire but must. Most countries are highly nationalistic, with no desire to be integrated into a world-wide super nation, whatever the benefits. Fuller's dogmatic projection of technological advancement seems blind to these realities...
...Post's handling of the Cooke affair struck most editors as inexcusable. "The practice [of using blind sources] is valid if the source can help you expose criminal conduct," says Dallas Times Herald Managing Editor Will Jarrett. "It is not valid if your source is the person perpetrating the crime." Notes Los Angeles Times Editor William Thomas: "The part that boggles my mind is that a reporter who has been with a paper only eight or nine months can refuse to tell an editor her source...
More "advanced" societies have forgotten the demonic language of superstition and luck, which they are inclined to call "dumb" or "blind." They often have no better explanation than primitives do for luck's strange intercessions, but they generally adopt a strategy both passive and fatalistic, a stoical mixture of rationalism and resignation to luck's works. Today it is mainly gamblers who stay on intimate and dangerous terms with luck and try to tame and possess it. Here and there, state lotteries have tried to bureaucratize luck-a dreary business and a contradiction in terms...
...featuring blow at events." Luck may be simply another name for the odd, unexpected notes in the huge symphony of things, of circumstance and coincidence, chemistry and character, diet and disease, weather and timing, the vastly subtle totality of being. But whatever the agnostics say, luck is not completely blind, or completely wild either. Within limits, it can be domesticated-although it will always be part wolf and may unexpectedly turn mad and eat the children one afternoon...
Raymond V. Wayne '81, a blind student and president of Advocating A Better Learning Environment, a University student organization composed primarily of disabled students, read his speech from notes in braille...