Word: blindnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...destroyed the city-state, Macedonia's Alexander steered Hellenism off on another tack. Under the tutelage of Aristotle, he envisioned the brotherhood of man in a single universal state to which, in Toynbee's view, the earlier Hellenes had been so suicidally blind. In carving out his empire, he directed 80 of his highest-ranking officers to marry Persian women. But the experiment in marital one-worldism was shortlived. The Hellenic world continued to writhe in violent separatist agonies until Rome's Augustan peace was imposed upon...
Anyone who has read Gadfly cannot fail to see the superb butchery done to it in Mr. Ashcraft's review. Perhaps Mr. Ashcraft alone is blind to his literary crime, having somehow forgotten to read Gadfly himself...
Murder and suicide are different manifestations of the same psychological disease--blind anger, according to reports released yesterday by two University researchers. Dr. Daniel H. Funkenstein, Clinical Associate in Psychiatry, and Dr. Hazel M. Hitson, an anthropologist in the Social Relations Department, studied mental hospital records and human behavior patterns to reach their conclusions...
...program of highlights that gave the company's stars a chance to display whatever muscles they had failed to flex earlier. There were a few quiet numbers-a beautifully danced version of Fokine's Les Sylphides (called Chopiniana by the Russians), an embarrassingly mawkish pantomime called A Blind Woman, which Prima Ballerina Ulanova almost managed to make acceptable. But most of the evening was given over to acrobatics: spinning, headlong leaps into the arms of supporting male dancers; a vaulting lift in which Ballerina Struchkova balanced light as a gull on the arched chest of her partner...
...Building, shown glowing against Manhattan's skyline, is a masterful exposition of how the steel cage can, by the very economy of its means and richness of its texture, become a masterpiece. But in the most advanced projects, it is equally clear that few architects now consider themselves blind Mies followers...