Word: myopia
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...sizable religious tradition doesn’t seem even to comprehend the notion of free expression—but somehow I don’t think that’s what the poster is referring to.All these events, altogether typical and expected in a Harvard context, bespeak an ironic myopia with America. Ironic, because the more important and less understood object of study is not American extremism but Islamic extremism, and because we live in a post-colonial age when independence has supposedly brought free agency to historical actors around the world. Yet, you wouldn’t know that...
...extremely arduous struggle to give Harvard students a social life. The saga began more than a decade ago with a valiant attempt known as “Loker Commons,” now an Ozymandias-esque monument to the power of Harvard’s wallet and the myopia of its foresight. The student body missed another chance for a centrally located student center when plans were announced, unchallenged, for a library administration building at 90 Mt. Auburn St., across the street from Felipe?...
...that the Iraqi insurgency is more coherent than previously supposed-with a collegial, if not strictly defined, leadership network, reliable funding sources and Sunni fighters far more adept than the nine-week wonders being produced for the new government by U.S. trainers. There is a growing fear that the myopia of the current Shi'ite leadership in Iraq will soon provoke a full-scale Sunni rebellion and civil war. Last week's announcement that armed Shi'ite and Kurdish militias would continue to be tolerated by the new government certainly didn't help. "There needs to be an immediate, aggressive...
...current criticism of the president, Bressner said, “demonstrates a disturbing lack of objectivity, a myopia that’s unacceptable and unwelcome in institutions of higher learning...
...theatre’s intimacy could induce myopia in the viewer: from my seat on the floor, it was a challenge during the first act to capture the production’s full effect whenever more than three characters appeared onstage. Fortunately, the second act moved to the back of the theater, where the added seating and space provided adequate distance. In the end, the play managed to be believable without being claustrophobically close to its audience...