Word: sightless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into service. So were Bock, Rundstedt and desert-fighter Erwin Rommel, called home from Africa to confer on the synchronization of Germany's Russian and Near Eastern drives. While the new battles were planned, the old battle went on. And all along the front, in windrows, lay the sightless dead...
...over 20,000,000 peasants came to the verge of starvation. Again the U.S. was touched and helped hard. Correspondent Walter Duranty wrote: "Imagine yourself standing at the corner of a dusty street. . . . The houses are mostly low wooden structures with dirty windowpanes or gaping holes like bleared and sightless eyes. . . . Opposite there is a handsome dwelling, formerly the home of a rich merchant. A broad garden is dotted with dun-colored bundles, motionless. . . . They are children...
Glory costs blood. Sightless, legless, armless veterans., fill commandeered seaside and mountain resorts (one hospital for wounded in Tokyo is so big that doctors use bicycles in making the rounds). Trains stop at villages regularly to disgorge little white boxes, each containing the ashes of a boy who has died at the China Front...
...These sightless figures were made by sightless sculptors. They were children (average age: 13) from the Oregon State School for the Blind at nearby Salem. Once a week, instructed by 28-year-old Sculptor George Justin Blais. 16 students (eight boys, eight girls) gathered at the Federal Art Center to model in clay. Working from distant memories and oral descriptions, sometimes using their schoolmates for models, the blind children tried to make up in touch what they lack in sight. Instructor Blais suggested ideas (whiskered men, cowboys, animals, etc.), criticized results as work progressed, but permitted his pupils...
...exhibition of blind sculpture last week. Unlike Portland's blind sculptors, Manhattan's were adults: women from 19 to 71. At The Lighthouse, a comfortably proportioned, six-story building on 59th Street, the New York Association for the Blind provides education, recreation and work for sightless people, holds classes in sculpture with instructors borrowed from...