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...these include most Catholics and a scattering of non-Catholics) defend papal diplomacy with pleas of necessity, adaptability, the ancient wisdom of the Church, and the long view, which in the case of Catholicism embraces eternity - a perspective so vast that differences between democracy and dictator ship sometimes blur to the ecclesiastical...
...result is a blur to the naked eye. To separate the two pictures so that each eye sees only the image meant for it, Polaroid sheets must be used in the beam splitter and also in glasses worn by the audience. Polaroid is a thin plastic containing myriads of tiny, imbedded, needle-like crystals of iodo-sulfate of quinine, all parallel. When a beam of light strikes the sheet all light waves that are vibrating in the plane of the crystals pass through, all others are stopped. Thus the two beams of light from the projector are filtered so that...
...several hours at a time the Union stands empty and vaguely familiar, as during a leisurely Christmas vacation. Then suddenly there come a series of sharp commands from without, followed by a rushing and a buzzing and a monocolored blur. And for a brief period the hall in all directions is lined by row on row of identical black coats, at stiff attention even on the coat racks. Then again the rush and the blur, and the Union is once more its hollow and ever more hollow self...
Most of the men have kept on working, except in severe cases, where small grey specks on the cornea blur vision. Usually the disease runs its course in two to three weeks, brings no serious aftereffects...
...Helen Hayes: ". . . one of those artists, apparently, who can dare extravagance, and by her charm and her deft obviousness blur the line between acting and an exhibition...