Word: myopia
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...chambers at Auschwitz. The documentary contends that while American Jewish leaders were being told such raids would be too dangerous for airmen, U.S. bombers based in Italy were attacking an I.G. Farben factory less than 50 miles from the death camp. In partial defense of this military myopia, Holocaust historian Lucy Dawidowicz has argued that the Germans could have quickly rebuilt the bombed railways and that attacks on crematoria would have killed thousands of Jewish inmates...
Those who rejoice in the skewering of a president are really only displaying their own myopia. Presidential scandals of this type are deadly to the credibility of the office. One needs only to look at the cynicism with which the public views public servants after Watergate to realize the impact these scandals have. Even if people aren't clear on the facts of the case--as only a very few are--the knowledge that the nation's leader was involved in something improper has its effect...
...demands her attorney, Robert Campbell III. "What danger is she to society?" Penologists have a ready answer: the danger is that while Drake monopolizes a scarce federal-prison bed, she enables a more dangerous criminal to roam free. To them, Drake's case is a textbook example of the myopia that blinds Americans to the long-term consequences of short-term solutions...
...opera singer and never suspected that the lady was a man. (According to Liaison, Joyce Wadler's fascinating new biography of the diplomat, the opera singer was able to fold his genitals inside his body, thus giving the naked illusion of femininity.) Hwang spins a phantasm of multiple myopia: a man preposterously blinded by love, a European culture blinkered by imperialist prejudice in its view of the mystic East...
...course the sexual undertones range from subtle to blatant--to have time alone with Humbert, Charlotte Haze sends Lolita to Camp Climax, of all places. And Nabokov's narrative treats such themes as the role of the writer and the distinction between art and life, Freudian repression, myopia and the American obsession with the European Romantic...