Word: paled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hearing the news read to them over the mine phone, 68 pale and whiskery strikers consented to be hoisted out. Sniffing his first fresh air and soaking up his first sunshine in eight days, one striker allowed: "It wasn't too bad down there." Another joined in: "But it's better out here...
...Good Light, by Karl Bjarnhof. Finding words for the things that are too terrible for words, this sightless author goes on with the fictionalized chronicle of his descent into blindness. A luminous sequel to its moving predecessor, The Stars Grow Pale...
Empty Chairs. Bald and stockily built, with pale, penetrating blue eyes, Iain Norman Macleod, who came to London by way of the Outer Hebrides and the D-day beaches of Normandy, has met and mastered every task set him by the Tory Party. In 1950 Rab Butler, present Home Secretary, wrote to Macleod: "I've found that every time I've given you a harder job, you've done it better." By nature a New Tory, with no inbred love for the huntin', shootin', fishin' types of old-style Conservatives, Macleod has served brilliantly...
...Good Light, by Karl Bjarnhof. A moving sequel to a fine novel (The Stars Grow Pale), the book tells of an adolescent boy in an institution for the blind, who slowly loses his sight but retains his sanity and love of life...
...before his eyes; he has gone completely blind. Danish Author Karl Bjarnhof, 61, has an un nerving intimacy with this scene and subject, for, at the age of 19, he lost his sight. The Good Light continues the fictionalized autobiography Bjarnhof began with his remarkable The Stars Grow Pale (TIME, April 28, 1958), taking his hero from boyhood into adolescence. The new book defies the law of sequels by being every whit as good as the first...