Word: eyestrain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nail. Gerald Carson is quite capable of organizing a text, as he demonstrated in The Roguish World of Doctor Brinkley, the goat-glands man, The Social History of Bourbon and The Old Country Store. But here his source material, the mere listing of which takes 19 pages of eyestrain type, apparently overwhelms him. Confronted with so much unassimilated abundance, Carson opts to fly over it, presenting what he calls "a bird's-eye view of the folkways, conventions and inherited ideas governing civilized behavior which have been followed-or flouted-among the English-speaking inhabitants of the United States...
Some of the student community most distinguished intellectual leaders have gotten eyestrain trying to read under the inadequate lighting in Lamont toilets. What more effective way to remedy this evil than for 4500 undergraduates to storm up the steps of Emerson Hall--or wherever the Administration is--shouting, "Might makes light! Might makes light...
...Some examine the way a single color looks darker than it is against a lighter background. Some, like Steele, place contrasting shapes together, which cause the eye to perceive them alternately as figure and ground; the theory is that such shifts move between stimulation and repose, possibly to relieve eyestrain. Richard Anuszkiewicz, 34, plays with afterimages, or the way one color engenders the false sensation of its complement on the retina. In his Union of the Four (at right), the red pigment throughout the painting is the same hue, despite what the eye sees...
There is such a thing as eyestrain, Dr. Kaplan conceded, and he defined it as "the sum of the discomforts from overuse or from uncorrected (by glasses) defects of the focusing powers of the eyes"-fatigue of the focusing muscles. Such discomforts, he insisted, cannot damage the organs of sight. If anybody wants to leave his glasses off, that is all right with the permissive Dr. Kaplan, even though "the patient may not see well without them and may consequently fall down steps and break a leg." But that is a problem for the orthopedist, not for the ophthalmologist...
Your article on increasing summer school activities shows that many American children have the gumption to get more out of their spare time than a case of TV eyestrain...