Indeed, aversion to it is so great that people try to silence any mention of the proscribed subject, and the most obvious reminders of it are overlooked by a strange intellectual blindness".
In this meditation, the novelist Martin Amis sets out to recall the moral and intellectual blindness that allowed so many to ignore the millions of corpses and the camps, and his heroic voices include Conquest (to whom the book is dedicated), Solzhenitsyn, Koestler, and Akhmatova.
"The climate of suspicion and disinformation, not to mention derision, which still too often surrounds the collection of reports, illustrates a surprising form of intellectual blindness".
Affected children in these villages may suffer long-term consequences such as intellectual deficits and blindness.
Most children who are born with my disease, toxoplasmosis, have profound side-effects that can include organ failure, blindness, and intellectual disabilities.
Some legal scholars consider Harlan's dissent to be the intellectual wellspring of "color blindness" -- the idea that race should simply not figure in any way into consideration of rights and opportunities.
One of the areas of focus on object permanence has been how physical disabilities (blindness, cerebral palsy and deafness) and intellectual disabilities (Down syndrome, etc).
Amis trod the ground of the gulag only four years ago in "Koba the Dread: Laughter and the 20 Million," his impassioned book of essays about the harms of Lenin, Stalin and the Soviet system, and the blindness of Western intellectuals who refused (and, in some cases, still refuse) to condemn them sufficiently.
In 1801, the poet and novelist Charlotte Smith wrote of "the myopia of the mind," and in 1891 Oliver Wendell Holmes, the poet of the breakfast table, referred to "the kind of partial blindness which belongs to intellectual myopia".
The center also runs community programs, such as scholarships for low-income students, and a hammock store, which employs more than 35 people with disabilities from blindness to deafness to intellectual disabilities, as well as some people without disabilities.
The Paralympics is a multi-sport event, involving athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities, including mobility disabilities, amputations, blindness, and cerebral palsy.
