Word: eyesight
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...Madrid, Spanish Concert Guitarist Andres Segovia, 59, was rushed to the hospital for surgery after suffering a sudden detachment of the retina of his right eye. With his left eye also in danger, weeks will pass before Segovia's doctors can tell whether his eyesight will be saved. Before entering the operating room, Segovia asked for his guitar, closed his eyes, and played before a rapt audience of doctors and nurses. "Now I know I can go on playing even if I remain blind for the rest of my life," he said...
...Since my election as constable last year to fill an unexpired term, I have conducted the office exactly as I promised the people . . . It hasn't meant much money to me, but the little I have made has been a great help. As most of you know, my eyesight is such that I cannot do other work which would pay me more. If I were a strong man, with normal vision . . . I would not bother you again about voting for me. But we all must accept things as they are and do the best...
...found a captivated as well as a captive audience in wife Jane, who shared all of his symptoms and capped them with migraine headaches of her own. Many a letter finds Carlyle with his ear cupped to the inner symphony of psychosomatic complaints: "Alas, alas, I am losing my eyesight (sad symptom of bile) by stooping over this flat table." In the country, a cow lowing in pasture could ruin his night's sleep. London was all "noise, unwholesomeness, dirt and fret." In Germany, all coffee resembled a "physic." Paris proved a "jump into...
...difficulties of clasping a cinema cutie in this way, without getting a severe eyestrain, have been more than Hollywood can cope with, so far. In the first three pictures, the depth illusion could scarcely have been more cruelly mismanaged if Hollywood had deliberately set out to destroy the eyesight of the nation. For all their skill in 2-D photography, the technicians still knew little about stereoscopy. One expert solemnly told Hollywood that the stereocamera sees things just as human eyes do because its openings are fixed four inches apart-"just as human eyes are"-and its lenses converge...
...nominal' (Nagasaki-type) atomic 'bomb, the heat cooks the skin up to two miles away. But if a person happens to be looking at the detonation, he will certainly be blinded permanently at more than four miles away, and even at a greater distance his eyesight will be seriously damaged...