Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Turning a blind eye is an idiom describing the ignoring of undesirable information. The Oxford English Dictionary records usage of the phrase in 1698. [1]The phrase to turn a blind eye is often associated with Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801.
The concept is also applied to situations in which people intentionally turn their attention away from an ethical problem that is believed to be important by those using the phrase (for instance, because the problem is too disturbing for people to want it dominating their thoughts, or from the knowledge that solving the problem would require ...
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte (29 September [O.S. 18 September] 1758 – 21 October 1805) was a Royal Navy officer whose inspirational leadership, grasp of strategy and unconventional tactics brought about a number of decisive British naval victories during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
The U.S. has to reevaluate its foreign policy priorities, and realign them with its values and long-term strategic interests in the Middle East.
"Many, Many Monkeys" is a 1989 episode of The Twilight Zone, in which an epidemic of blindness is described as a judgement upon society for "turning a blind eye" to the sufferings of others. Proof is a 1991 film about a blind photographer, who distrusts other people's descriptions of the world around him.
Originally self-published by Nelson, it was republished with a foreword by Stewart Brand in 1987 by Microsoft Press. In Steven Levy's book Hackers, Computer Lib is described as "the epic of the computer revolution, the bible of the hacker dream. [Nelson] was stubborn enough to publish it when no one else seemed to think it was a good idea." [1]
Nelson might not examine actual lynchings in Mine Eyes Have Seen, but the effects of such acts are present after the characters must travel north: Their mother passes due to the abysmal atmosphere of the north, Dan is crippled while working in a factory, and Lucy lives with a limp and constant fear.
A Bequest to the Nation is a 1970 play by Terence Rattigan, based on his 1966 television play Nelson (full title – Nelson – A Portrait in Miniature). [1] It recounts the events surrounding Horatio Nelson , his mistress Emma Hamilton , and his wife Frances Nisbet in the events immediately before, during and after the Battle of Trafalgar .