Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long time after World War II that formula worked, but decades of Keynesian policies have now trapped the economy in a blind alley. The Government taxes away too much of the wealth generated by private business and wastes it in often unproductive expenditures. Though individual industries may overproduce, supply in the economy as a whole no longer grows fast enough either to provide jobs for all the people who want them or to absorb the demand created by Government outlays. The result: the nation suffers from simultaneous unemployment and inflation...
Your paean to the Agrarians is a reminder of just how willfully blind Southern intellectuals were and are. Of all the Southern writers, only the greatest of them, William Faulkner, had the courage to examine the true paradox of the South-the julep-sipping Southern gentleman who bought and sold human beings. The Agrarians ignored the dominant fact of their history: that their "New World Eden" fed upon an evil far greater than the industrialization they lament...
...lies beneath the façade is a self-constructed woman, one of the four or five most distinguished living sculptors. By right, the grande dame of American art is Georgia O'Keeffe, 13 years Nevelson's senior; but O'Keeffe is reported to be almost blind and unable to paint any longer. Not so Nevelson, who sails into her ninth decade with undiminished vigor. The year 1980 brought her a load of work, commissions and exhibitions heavy enough to floor an artist half her age. It was her big year. In its wake, some...
...completely at home. "This is where I restore myself," he tells the few friends he invites here. The ranch is accessible only by climbing seven miles on a switchback road, through gullies and blind turns that drop off sharply toward the water, a drive that still makes Nancy Reagan nervous. Strong winds and fog often roll in suddenly from the sea; at other times the air on the mountaintop is crystal clear and dead quiet, so still that a voice can be heard at great distances...
...close call. Last week one of the seven strikers, Sean McKenna, 26, sentenced to 25 years for terrorist offenses including the attempted murders of a policeman and a Protestant civilian, was reported to be going blind from lack of food. He was described as comatose and close to death; a visiting relative said he looked like a "yellow skeleton." Amid warnings that McKenna had only 24 hours to live, prison authorities brought in a priest to give him the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church. After the strike was called off, the fear remained that he might still...