Word: myopia
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...weapon in toppling white supremacy. This was possible, says TransAfrica's leader, Randall Robinson, because South African oppression could be reduced to a simple black-and-white issue most Americans could understand. But when it comes to black-on-black oppression like Nigeria's, a kind of moral myopia sets in. The affliction stems partly from the patronizing attitude of many whites, who assume that when blacks rule themselves they will inevitably revert to savagery. But it also reflects the unwillingness of some African-American leaders to hold black-ruled nations to the same standards they demand of everyone else...
...closest friends, we are supposed to be learning how to see the forest and not the trees. Instead, like Little Red Riding Hood on her way to Granny's house, we usually find ourselves lost in the woods and pursued by the Big Bad Wolf of academic myopia. Looking at the individual tree, like Hindu Myth, Image and Pilgrimage (Literature and Arts C-18) or Jewish Life in Eastern Europe (Foreign Cultures 56,) certainly has its place. Yet, if the Core is to succumb to such overspecialization, it is even more important that the Core provide the general survey courses...
...when Hoop Dreams got stiffed, not only in the Best Picture category but also by the 47-member documentary selection committee, the snub spurred charges of corruption and artistic myopia. "It's a crime," fumes Wendy Finerman, a producer of Forrest Gump, which received 13 nominations. "This was one of the best documentaries of all time. The filmmakers were robbed." So fierce was the response that the Motion Picture Academy-a club with more secrets than the Masons-declared that it would examine the nominating procedure. "We always ask, 'Could our rules be changed?'" says Academy president Arthur Hiller...
...fair to Jodie Foster and her sisters in cinema that Hollywood makes so few movies starring women. In dollar terms, this gender myopia is defensible, since guy pictures do bigger business. This year, for example, all eight of the films that earned more than $100 million at the domestic box office are stories of "a man who ..." Or, in one case, "a male lion...
...What are the common names for: caries, myopia, missing patellar reflex...