Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, his opinion suggests troubling assumptions and contradictions common in much mainstream debate over minorities in the U.S. That menace lies in insisting on seeing the minority "problem" through one lens--here applying quotas--and then setting by inference the needs of one minority against those of another.
Eventually, a working lens was developed. Wise contracted with several small plants around Massachusetts to produce the lenses, and field tests were conducted with chickens on farms around the country...
Wise's father, Irvin, tried to produce the lenses for chickens after a sales agent told him about a farm where chickens afflicted with cataracts were better-behaved than those with normal sight, and he thought a market might exist for a lens that distorted the bird's sight...
...technology didn't exist at the time for the lens to work," the younger Wise explains. "The early lenses blinded the chickens...
So we sit on the sidelines watching, with our hands tied by uncertainty and our vision lacking the sharply focused lens provided by the past, as momentous events burst one by one around us. Inevitably, we ask, how could it be? What will happen now? Is there cause for fear...