Word: myopia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stilwell had an infantryman's myopia when it came to the real uses of airpower (he even walked out of Burma after his defeat, though Pilot Scott had flown in to rescue him), and Marshall could be relied on to back Stilwell in any disagreement with Chennault. Moreover, as Author Scott only suggests, Stilwell bitterly disliked Chennault's friend, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. The overriding issue of Chinese Communism is all but unmentioned in Scott's book, although the Marshall and Stilwell blindness to the Communists' real purpose lay at bottom of their inability...
Undergraduate Myopia...
...Their myopia is especially strong when they envision Harvard as a completely cosmopolitan college. This contention rests upon the dual claims of unreserved acceptance of large numbers of foreign students, and eager susceptibility to international influences ranging from Austin-Healy's to Zen Buddhism. Both these claims are more attractive than true. Foreign students are accepted on the same basis as all others, more often despite than because of their foreign origins and customs. The college community is liberal enough not to be suspicious of outsiders, but it is not particularly interested in them either. The typical foreign student...
Which, then, is the threat in our own time: purges, conformity, or myopia? According to Mr. Hutchins, the threat comes not from purges themselves, but from the conformity which they induce. The response is therefore not action but investigation...
American education is sick, sick, sick. Everybody knows the symptoms: student ignorance and apathy, graduate incompetence and irresponsibility, and of course, public myopia, hedonism, avarice and crudity. There is not a single malaise of our time which has not been evoked to prove that educators are falling down on the job. The Academic Marketplace is among the more sensational diagnoses of this morbid condition...