Word: sightlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four-place Cessna 180 descended toward a landing at Wyoming's Minuteman Missile Site B6. Down and down it went, faster and faster. Too fast. One of the passengers leaned toward veteran Pilot Edgar Van Keuren. The pilot's eyes were open-but sightless. He was dead of a stroke...
...sniffs at battered ashcans spilling over with decaying garbage, a cornucopia of filth. It paws dirty shreds of newspapers that flutter along the sooty pavements like bedraggled kites. It blinks up at row on row of crumbling brownstones, their grimy windows staring back emptily at the street like sightless eyes. The sound track tingles with cool jazz, the dry atonal music of the asphalt jungle, and keens a somber threnody on Spanish guitar strings. The cross-cultural music is apt, for this is Spanish Harlem, known in Manhattan as "El Barrio," home to the huddled masses of the postwar wave...
...Miracle Worker is Teacher Sullivan (Anne Bancroft), who guided the child Helen Keller (Patty Duke) out of the terrifying void of a sightless, speechless and soundless existence. The two stars are as fine as actors...
...Miracle Worker is Teacher Sullivan (Anne Bancroft), who guided the child Helen Keller (Patty Duke) out of the terrifying void of a sightless, speechless and soundless existence. The two stars, repeating their Broadway roles, are as fine as actors...
America's feverish racism during the last few wars leaves no room for pride or sanctimonious self-satisfaction. On the other hand, Americans who have the effect of the Powell amendment in destroying a recent school aid bills. Sightless crusading against prejudice can be as crippling as race hatred...