Word: visions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SHORTER FINNEGANS WAKE, by James Joyce, edited by Anthony Burgess. Novelist Burgess (A Clockwork Orange) has pulled Joyce's astronomical Dublin masterpiece into the general reader's field of vision simply by cutting out two-thirds of it. There is still plenty of wit and wordplay left...
People with corrected vision of 20/200 or worse are legally blind. Even with magnifying glasses or special reading spectacles, they cannot read ordinary newspaper or magazine print. Some 420,000 Americans fall into this category; to help them see, Manhattan Optometrist Dr. William Feinbloom has developed "reading binoculars" that magnify 3.5 times and enable many of the legally blind who are not totally sightless to read with relative ease...
...lower portion of ordinary prescription glasses. Made up of four lenses (one of them a "doublet" of two lenses cemented together) separated by three sealed air spaces, the tiny, high-powered units not only provide magnification but also correct aberrations. They are focused so that the lines of vision of both eyes converge at the normal reading distance of 16 inches. Since he developed the new glasses (price $300), Feinbloom has tried them out on 360 "blind" people. He has found fewer than ten whom they failed to help. Though designed especially for reading, they have proved useful in cooking...
...Compagnie Française de Télévision, whose SECAM color-television system is battling Germany's PAL for eminence in Europe (TIME, Aug. 12), and begins color telecasting this fall in France and the Soviet Union. Compagnie Française also manufactures sets, and Floirat expects to sell 500,000 before 1969, after that 500,000 annually...
...whose life is politics, the line must sometimes be easily blurred. The question is whether it was blurred just a little too often in the case of Tom Dodd-and if so, what penalty he must pay for his faulty vision...