Word: blindnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obviously, this interdependence has many weaknesses, and many hazards. If the community is a relatively poor one, a halt-leading-the-blind relationship may occur, with mistake following ludicrous mistake down the trail of ignominy. In Cambridge, for example, the School Committee, the elected body of parents responsible for supervising the schools, tried to "improve" its school facilities by making a series of unnecessary appointments and promoting unqualified men to responsible jobs in the school system. In this case, the irresponsible action of one group of parents was rectified by another group of parents, who organized petitions and referenda...
...restore France to greatness. His concept of political leadership smacks suspiciously of authoritarianism to many Frenchmen who hold zealous devotion to the ideals of individual liberty and the inherent virtue of la Republique as it stands. Such devotion, laudable as it may be in the abstract, is, however, sometimes blind to the practical requirements of government. France's present national crisis seems to be one of these occasions. De Gaulle, offering resolution to a country that has been plagued by political pusillanimity for the past twelve years, represents France's best, and probably only, chance to pour life back into...
...playing the Venezuelan national anthem; Pat Nixon shamed a hooting, teen-aged girl into silence by reaching over the guards' bayonets to take her hand. As the Nixons got into separate cars for the ten-mile superhighway trip up the coastal range to the capital, demonstrators tried to blind the drivers by draping banners over the windshields. Only when the mob was left behind...
...portray. De Bresson's story, on the other hand, is not a fragment, but rather an epitome of sickness, a suitable inside for the hideous color combination of the cover. It is not that the story is bad, but that it is pathological without seeking a definitive diagnosis. The blind too often seem to be looking at the blind...
...first three Eli golfers will be Frank Dolph, John Gilford--who are undefeated so far--and Long Island amateur champion Tom Gillison. The Yale course is difficult, long, tricky, and full of blind holes. The Crimson squad went to New Haven yesterday to practice on it. Although the Crimson defeated Yale last year, that was its first victory over the Bulldogs in 26 years. If Harvard wins today it will be its first defeat of Yale at New Haven in over 50 years...