Word: optical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That amazing mechanism, the human eye, adjusts itself to Los Angeles in a matter of hours. The optic nerves grow submissive before the red glare of geraniums, the flash of windshields, the sight of endless and improbable vistas of pastel stucco. Even on his first, casual, hundred-mile drive the pilgrim achieves a kind of stunned tranquillity, and gazes unblinkingly at palace-studded mountains, rat-proofed palms, and supermarkets as big as B-2Q hangars...
...Goldstein, now 30, had had to get along with only one eye; the other one was removed because of a rare malignant tumor, retinoblastoma, which occurs in only one out of 500,000 children with eye trouble. Surgery is necessary to prevent the cancer from spreading along the optic nerve to the brain, or through the blood stream to the liver and the other organs of the body, causing death...
...been fitted with modified welder's goggles (see cut). In a month Dr. Blasdel will check her eyes to see if she needs different lenses. Dr. Blasdel could do nothing for her master. Cross, now 30, lost his sight in an accident when he was 14; the optic nerve has atrophied...
Marie-Jose, Italy's last Queen (for 26 days in 1946), went to Switzerland from Portugal for eye-doctoring. Paraly sis of the optic nerve threatened her with blindness...
Though Sportscaster Bill Slater now ingratiatingly explains what is happening on the screen (apparently for the benefit of the blind), the film itself remains a brilliant solo on the optic nerve. Some memorable passages...