Word: blindness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...forward over his forehead, "this is a case of the utmost gravity . . . The prisoner is a Communist, and that is at once the explanation and indeed the tragedy of this case . . ." Shawcross went over the story that Fuchs had told in his confession -the course of a brilliant, morally blind man from confusion to total, irretrievable corruption (TIME...
...type of comedy. Instead, the humor comes from the normal actions of the people themselves. The Abbey Players have caught the underlying comedy in the lives of the poor but happy country folk-in the Irish superstitions nature an typical multitude of minor sins. These qualities appear in the blind faith of the townspeople in the ability of Ma Murnaghan to predict the future and their rush to bet all their money on her choice in the Irish National...
Many undergraduates think of the Corporation as a deaf, dumb, and blind giant who stumbles along from century to century without ever recognizing the needs and opinions of students. The news that the Corporation has approved the Provost's plans to open and maintain a Student Activities Center undoubtedly comes as a surprise to these cynics. The Student Activities Center is a project that the College both needs and desires, and it is only fair that the University be commended for taking action--although the action has been four years in coming...
...cans and brake drums, made the place hotter with ear-splitting overtures. Then judges were picked from the audience, and the calypsonians started in. Besides Attila there were old master-singers with such names as the Roaring Lion, Growling Tiger, Mighty Dictator, Small Island Pride and the Blind Sensation...
...brought $2,000 in Navy "winnings" back home to Hasbrouck Heights. But his father had died and the fat roll of bills disappeared in settling family debts. Soon he was in a familiar position-on his uppers in a strange city. The city was Detroit where, desperately answering a blind ad, he found himself a door-to-door salesman of cemetery lots. By drawing heavily on his peculiar assets-the husky Godfrey voice-with-a-personality and the honest-Injun Godfrey face-he made $10,000 in five months. Three months later he had lost it all as the star...