Glasses for Rich

A Potion of ground (spectacle) glass in the beer of "Salient's" film critic! This unusual thought (the glass part, not the beer) arose from his criticism of stodgy film directors. But he didn't call them stodgy—he labelled them shortsighted instead. This is not a whimper on behalf of the short-sighted, whose vision and life is for the most part completely normal with glasses. It is a bang at the ridiculous literary convention that makes a Chinese sinister, an Italian a small-time gangster, and a short-sighted person a goof.

There must be hundreds of us at VUC, our lenses may vary in thickness, but for the most part our heads do not. Women students can laugh off Dorothy Parker's jingle (note for freshers as a piece of unapplied theory)—

"Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses."

Men students can select the Duke of Edinburgh as their patron.

I concede that those (film directors or students) who sport, spectacles with frames suitable for hoardings, or perhaps for luminous tape, need a reminder that only horses need blinkers.

In particular, when "Salient's" film critic comes to review one of Grace Kelly's films, I hope that he will judge it on its merits, despite the recent "Time" story which tells us that she too, is shortsighted.—A.C.