Word: opticians
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...camera has carefully chosen all of these things, and each choice signals its totals authority as clearly as the optician's signboard--a pair of neon glasses--that once appears behind the couple. All that is, is what it sees: without the camera's grace we are as blind as the lady with second slight, and in the country of the blind the one big eye is king...
...which set the new requirement to reduce eye injuries, was precise in its standards. The lenses will not be unbreakable or shatterproof, but they must be sufficiently tempered to withstand a specific shock-a steel ball weighing .56 oz. dropped from a height of 50 in. The optician is supposed to make the drop test, aiming at the center of the lens, before releasing the glasses...
...Kurt Vonnegut, guest lecturer in English in the fall term of 1970-71, once said that Spoon River Anthology is the most important book in American literature. Here is Edgar Lee Masters' vision of what the ghost of "Dippold the Optician...
...show-stopping Nobody Steps on Kafritz number and a Tony nomination. "I wanted to be more than a belter," says Alice, though she was an overpowering one. But she has never been particularly pushy or pushed. "I wasn't fulfilling my parents' frustrations," she says of her optician father and housewife mother. "They aren't stage parents." Her TV and radio commercials (she has done 45 in the last 16 months) bring in enough money so that she can take college courses and wait for roles "with a little meat and a little thought." She is especially...
Divorced. By Forbes Burnham, 43, Prime Minister of Guyana (formerly British Guiana), newest nation in the Western Hemisphere: Sheila Lataste Burnham, 41, a former Trinidad optician; on grounds of desertion (he said that she left him, refused to return); after 15 years of marriage, three children; in Georgetown, Guyana...