Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rounded up 30 Africans to try for the drunken explosion of violence that recently killed nine policemen in Cato Manor, a Negro ghetto. "Cato Manor," wrote one reader to the editor, "should make the white population of South Africa realize that they are surrounded by savages who are not fit for political rights." South Africa's Parliament solemnly passed a new law to extend segregation on bathing beaches to three miles out to sea so that colored swimmers could not get closer than the sharks to white waters...
...multitude of professions engaged in correcting visual defects. There are the ophthalmologists, M.D. physicians who prescribe corrective lenses as a minor part of their specialty of treating eye disorders. Then optometrists,* who may not apply medicine or perform surgery, but measure visual defects, prescribe for them and fit lenses. Then there are the opticians. The ophthalmologists generally regard the other groups as journeymen technicians. But most ophthalmologists have been slow to see the potential demand for contact lenses, or their possible advantages; so the optometrists have filled the vacuum...
...Boom. Foreshadowed by Leonardo da Vinci in 1508, contact lenses were first made in Europe in the 1880s. They were big, covering most of the sclera (the white of the eye), heavy (made of glass), hard to fit and forbiddingly expensive. Early plastic lenses were also of the big scleral type, had to float on a bath of special wetting fluid, and could be worn only four to five hours at a stretch. Then came the methyl-methacrylate plastics (of the Plexiglas family), the discovery that fluid was unnecessary if lenses had a hole to permit tears to pass beneath...
...distinction that Siobhan McKenna and Colleen Dewhurst and very few others can command. On this level Miss Howard simply hasn't got it, but she is a competent actress with a splendid pair of shoulders. Lee Henry is similarly undefinitive but competent as Ultimate Evil. Arthur Malet cannot quite fit his occasional moments of menace into the prevailing pixyishness of his interpretation, but his picturesque, toothless old jailer is an exquisitely professional...
...more, the poor hero has been hounded all his life by a monster of a mother (Mildred Dunnock) who intends to keep her son if she has to kill him to do it (she hires the incompetent lawyer so she can run the defense as she sees fit). On top of everything else, the state's attorney (Sanford Meisner) proves to be the sort of leering, sneering villain who turns prosecution into persecution...