Word: myopia
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...last Sunday Briggs and I discovered we're no oddsmakers. We stumbled upon our myopia as a steel-tempered sky burned into crystal-hung night. We went chasing jail-bait and missed our aim and slummed our way into Daniel and Gay's ceric world...
Laden with a library of booklets and magazines to aid me in making some sense out of the U.S. Open Championship Horse Trials. I made my way up the dusty trail to the Polo Grounds of the Myopia Hunt Club in Hamilton...
Time on the Cross is an ambitious enough work to contain a good deal of bad history. Its lapses would be easier to excuse if Fogel and Engerman were not so insistent on the revolutionary nature of their method. Often they exaggerate the myopia of earlier historians, in order to make their own conclusions seem more extraordinary. Their work is not, even in conception, the comprehensive evaluation the authors believe it to be. It is a work with new insights and with new speculation; more of the truth could be discovered if people spent more time thinking about the history...
...hefty assignment, to cover the ooze. Certainly, if done right, this kind of story could do much to correct the myopia plaguing most of us, who don't look beyond the big-story headlines to the rumbling undercurrents. It is hard to deny that it would have been nice if some perceptive reporters of the past decades had had enough insight to sense and write about two of the biggest news-making developments of this century: the movement of blacks from the South to the North, and the desertion of white families to the suburbs. In both cases, there...
...opportunities there are--for whites and Indians alike on the coast. So that someday mysterious letters from high places will no longer go unread into the fire, and representatives sent to the Ministry of Indian Affairs in Quebec City will begin to guide the federal government out of a myopia of ignorance...