Word: eyesight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grades, which are in pen, pencil, or crayon on either the flyleaf or title page, clearly represent Reisner's judgment. Many are in his handwriting, but some seem to have been set down by someone else--possibly a person who read the mysteries aloud, for Reisner's eyesight failed in his later years. An example of a dictated grade may be found in Night Express Murder by L.A. Knight: "A (he says B plus, but he enjoyed it until the end, which was poor...
...beatification requires lengthy investigations (lasting 40 to 60 years) and proof of two miracles; but the villagers of tiny Sotto il Monte, where John was born, are confident that one day he will be "Blessed John." Already, the parish priest says, he has heard of a girl recovering her eyesight and an aged man regaining his health through prayers to the late Pope for his intercession with...
Back row interdigitators may be delighted with the dimness, but legible notes and unimpaired eyesight are hard enough to maintain without added environmental handicaps. Protesters have been making plenty of noise about this matter of light, yet Dean Trottenberg has responded with blatant indifference. His legalistic quibbling over the applicability of the Massachusetts lighting law is irrelevant. The University should be obliged by responsible concern, if not by law, to provide adequate lumination. And it doesn't take a light meter to see that it has failed...
When a man buys a suit of clothes, he also buys self-respect. And if you think that a $50 suit looks like a $250 suit, then either you have poor eyesight or you wear $50 suits...
Though he says that his eyesight is growing weaker in his dim cell, Siqueiros still wields a dancing brush that creates images somersaulting and swirling far from a prison courtyard. His jail-made Dancer wishfully wraps a cape of anatomy around a vaulter's pole. His forceful, lavender-colored Mother and Child casts the swaying shadow of a madonna into a posture of freedom. In keeping with the size of his studio, the paintings are small; their message is that the great talent, having been put in the cooler, is frozen...