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Night driving is risky enough, warns St. Louis' Dr. Paul W. Miles in the Archives of Ophthalmology, but colored glasses or tinted windshields can make it downright dangerous. The big trouble: the loss of visual acuity because too much light...
Taking plain and colored glass in turn. Dr. Miles lists their effects. If ordinary daytime vision is 20/20, then visual acuity at night, through clear glass, is cut to 20/32. A popular "night glass" of light yellow reduces visual acuity only to 20/34. But Dr. Miles found that a second popular shade, pink, cut visual acuity to 20/40. Finally, a green windshield reduced nighttime acuity to 20/46, but in combination with the pink glasses, it slashed vision to a deadly 20/60...
...absolved Magdalene almost invariably linked her with angels (in the art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance she is depicted as receiving the sacraments at the hands of angels, as being borne up to heaven by angels, etc.) But the Magdalene symbolism in The Confidential Clerk is visual and dramatic as well as verbal. In the first act of the play, Lucasta Angel enters wearing a dress with large red flowers at the bosom. Red is the symbol of love and the color which is associated with Mary Magdalene early in her career. Throughout the act, a gold spotlight...
Antony Bonvalot's settings of three odes of Horace belong in an altogether different class from the preceding works. Each of the odes has is distinctive medium in one it is the visual evocation of a dramatic scene, in another a philosophic monologue, and in the last the very experience of the poet's madness...
Finally, there are the permanent records: the heart indexes on a four-way chart, the sound on a tape, and (if funds become available) a full visual record on Kinescope. Everything can be played back so that physicians and surgeons can devise improvements in their methods...