Word: blindnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Supermarket operators in Bellingham, Wash. (pop. 38,500) finally quit suffering in silence and broadcast a trade secret that had been kept pretty well by grim grocers across the country: since recession, the customers have been stealing supermarkets blind...
...ties" because "they do not use their eyes any more." He also unhesitatingly claims second sight. When he painted the portrait of Professor Auguste Forel, famous Swiss psychiatrist, Kokoschka made his subject look 20 years older, with his right hand drooping strangely, his right eye blind. Forel and his family protested that the portrait was a poor likeness-but four months later, just as though Psychological Portraitist Kokoschka had foreseen it, the unlucky professor suffered a stroke that paralyzed his right side...
...would not let the Israelities go, then kill in each Egyptian family because he would not (Exodus 12:29)? Surely the slaughtered children were not to blame! the sectarianism at Harvard may be less crude than at the Rhode Island college, but sectarianism is basically the same everywhere--a blind and blinding belief which will not permit the sectarian to make free use of accumulating knowledge or other evidence which disproves or casts doubt on the basis of the belief...
Wesleyan College defeated the Crimson golf team yesterday, 4 to 3. The match was played at the Edgewood Country Club in Cromwell, Conn., and a good part of the varsity's defeat was due to their lack of familiarity with the course. Wesleyan won three strokes on Crimson blind shots, although all of the Harvard golfers shot 80 or under...
What is perhaps most remarkable about Stars is that it is a fictionalized memoir from an author who is himself blind. Between the ages of 17 and 19, Novelist Bjarnhof lost his sight, subsequently toured as a concert cellist and became one of Denmark's leading men of letters. Active as an essayist, newspaper editor and radio interviewer, Karl Bjarnhof has published seven novels. Stars, which appeared in Denmark in 1956 and has since been translated into six languages, is the sixth. It is a measure of Author Bjarnhof's rigorously won success that he makes his hero...