Word: myopia
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...Innis' peculiarly idiosyncratic career (he attended Exeter and came to Harvard, joined the CRIMSON, majored in Soc Rel, and spent his summers as a Newsweek correspondent while also teaching black ghetto children, allows him to achieve a distance from the insulated condition of Cambridge life. Saved from our prevailing myopia, Innis looks back on his years here with startling equanimity...
...right that the Square is going to hell. Where before they mutely watched the processes. they are now contributing to it. They have read "the problem of street people living in the Square" as the "problem of street people living in the Square ruining business," and with such obvious myopia, it is inevitable that their solution to the problem has been to crack down on street people's means of livlihood in the Square: where they sleep and how they eat, as well as to fill the Square with police. The situation, thus drawn in black and white, is neatly...
Partly it was her accented voice that did it-hesitant at the surface, confident underneath, like the upper register of a cello. Partly it was the dark, liquid eyes, staring past the camera in what her admirers described as hypnotic lust and what her ophthalmologist analyzed as acute myopia. But after all, there have been hundreds of promising starlets with shiny eyes, trained voices and good bones. With Bujold what made the difference was the ability to meld the parts and the actress into something special...
...this point-the call for action-McCarthy's myopia makes an important difference. For McCarthy's belief that our CBW policy change was due simply to a lack of assertiveness "by our top military and civilian policy makers and by Congress." leads the Congressman to conclude that a more pronounced and well known policy on CBW will reverse the situation...
...moral myopia which allows a few drops of blood, shed in legitimate police action, to overshadow the violent seizure of private property places the entire community at the mercy of any extremist group. Furthermore, it alienates the University's friends and contributors. Finally, it's just plain stupid...