Word: myopia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Local civil rights advocates have betrayed acute myopia in suggesting that Harvard withdraw its investments from "segregationist" Southern firms. Such a policy would probably be neither effective in Mississippi nor administratively feasible at Harvard. But more important, it would be in clear violation of a long-standing and valuable University policy of political neutrality...
With captain Stan Abrams out of action, the Crimson golf squad turned in a mediocre performance yesterday, as they narrowly defeated M.I.T., 4-3, at the Myopia Hunt Club in South Hamilton...
Newman and his wife have said that they had left the fake West for some real acting in the legitimate theater. And both are always fun to watch and at times as real as one could wish. But because of Costigan's myopia, no clear Mavis or Emil (or Edward for that matter) ever comes through; the only consistent performance is from Barney, the sheep-dog (played, the program reports, by Patrick, the sheep-dog). And he can't save the show. Baby Want A Kiss some how manages to be as inane as its title...
Since Kennedy's death, this clear vision has been replaced by myopia. Thomas C. Mann, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, indicated Wednesday that he was unable to distinguish between democratic regimes and rightist dictatorships in Latin America. This is doubly alarming, since Mann has been entrusted by the President with sole responsibility for U.S. policy in this area; his speech therefore indicates what Johnson's Latin American policy will probably...
...would appear as though that tangled web has ensnared everything from moonlighting, mistresses and mooching to President Johnson's acute (and heretofore undiagnosed) case of myopia...