Word: eyesight
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Daybreak was approaching, but it was still dark as Dayan turned to leave. He had difficulty seeing the trees between him and the path, and when he walked into one of them, I was reminded of how seriously his eyesight was impaired. My heart went...
...magnificent catalogue, which contains both color reproductions and perhaps the most definitive discourse on El Greco yet published, argues that he was neither a rebel nor an outcast, least of all an astigmatic. El Greco's distortions came from his insight, not his eyesight. Earlier treatises on El Greco's paintings have tended to expatiate on the mystical side of his inspiration and the aberrant elements of his style. This splendid show, which embraces his more mundane commissions and his most grandiose projects, demonstrates that he was an extraordinary technician...
...Industrial Designer Richard Hollerith, a member of the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped. As he pointed out, today or tomorrow, for days or for life, anyone can be struck by a disability-from a broken leg to paralysis, from an earache to deafness, from poor eyesight to blindness, to say nothing of the debilities...
...Voice" to record the Aeolus episode of Ulysses. Although extremely nervous, Joyce delivered an impassioned reading. The result was a disappointment: the poor quality of the master disc overpowers the author. Later in England, Joyce read the Anna Livia Plurabelle section of Finnegans Wake with much better equipment. His eyesight failing, he read from a huge typescript, although he must have known the famous passage by heart. Here, his voice lilts and trips in a lively evocation of his Irish washerwoman. If Finnegans Wake seems impenetrable without guidebooks and glosses, its music is a revelation on the tongue...
What is does produce, in Thurber's case, is the most tedious sort of ramblings about his travels, his finances, and--in elaborate, unsparing detail--his failing eyesight. The editors identify "the Thurber Circle" as Wolcott Gibbs, Frank Sullivan Kenneth Tynan, and a few other literary buddies, but the letters make it clear that the circle that preoccupied Thurber was his right retina. An entire section of the book is devoted to Thurber's correspondence with his opthalmologist, in which he generally has this kind of thing...