Word: sightlessness
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...crooks concoct an elaborate hoax about being cops, and there is much hokum with rattling of Venetian blinds, fake phone calls, unscrewing of fuses, disguises of voice. But Lee Remick is a sightless Penelope with uncanny perception who carefully unravels in Act II everything that the crooks have carelessly knitted in Act I; it takes a pretty dedicated mystery fan to follow every purl three, drop one, of this crazy pattern. In Act III the mayhem picks up, and a refrigerator becomes the most electrifying actor in the house...
...bill paying to zebra-striped checkbooks. But until now the banks have largely ignored the special needs of the 1,000,000 present or potential customers who are blind. Last week Manhattan's Chemical Bank New York Trust Co. produced a solution to one difficult problem of the sightless: how to write a check without aid. The bank showed off a Braille checkwriter that consists of an aluminum plate into which the sightless insert a special check. Guided by cutouts in the device, they can write the necessary data. There are also 35 perforated Braille openings through which...
...John Lithgow for Bramhall as Oedipus the old man. In its own way, the performance of Colonus in the Fitzgerald translation was much better, but it was also much less satisfying. Colonus is a much more complicated tragedy than the earlier Rex, and the character of the aged, sightless, beaten man makes almost impossible demands on the actor...
...young Eto would devote his life to the koto, adhering to the centuries-old tradition of Japan's great koto virtuosos, most of whom were blind. Eto began studying the koto at eight, a year later went to Tokyo for private lessons with the late Miyagi Michio, a sightless composer-performer famed for creating a new form of koto music based on Western influences. In 1953, determined to carry on the work of his teacher and popularize the koto as a solo instrument in the Western world, he took up residence in the U.S. He now lives...
They cannot see - but they hunger to learn. A blind college physics student wants to know what is in a four-part book on quantum mechanics written in Greek, Latin, German and English. A sightless theologian needs to absorb Reinhold Niebuhr's The Nature and Destiny of Man. A farmer must learn the contents of Modern Fruit Science. An aspiring salesman pleads to know The Five Great Rules of Selling...