Word: myopia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Opposition to the Truman nomination exhibits, even from McKellar's partisan point of view, a case of political myopia. By attempting to institute the spoils system in atomic control, the former Senate President Pro Tem is dividing the few remaining Democrats, and rapidly convincing a worldful of people that American statesmen are still juggling the A-bomb in a Congressional circus...
...special problems and its refusal to consider long-run effects on the nation as a whole. In support of his thesis, the author cites labor's featherbedding, the gouge of "parity prices" for the farmer, consumer insistence on price control, and similar examples of what to him is selfish myopia which can only restrict production...
Management's main crime, according to Johnson, is "executive myopia ... a disease of those with high rank ... organized razzle-dazzle, the derangement of top management, otherwise known as 'industrial bureaucracy.' " Specifically, business has "plunked for the lowest wages" when it should have become the "champion of the underpaid. ... Is there no one in business who will think of being ahead of the next catastrophe instead of running after the one that has already happened...
Better Half. Midway between being an old and newtimer is Helen Sobel. She is a tiny, chic, 34-year-old blonde who looks like Gertrude Lawrence, always wears blue rimmed glasses because of severe myopia. Last week she increased her lead in the race for the William E. McKenney Trophy, awarded to the year's top scorer of masters points. She won the cup in 1941 and 1942, lost it last year to her favorite bridge partner, Charles H. Goren. This year her prospects look good again-she has 194 points, 22 points ahead of her closest rival, George...
...confusing such as this can be. R. S. Merriam didn't seem to meet with any universal approval as an umpire,-although he figured out the "break-even" point of every play. Out in the field Messrs. Livesey and Barloon (despite his besmirched trousers) played stellar games notwithstanding obvious myopia...