Word: myopia
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...basso, a sensation as Othello opposite Peggy Ashcroft in London and Uta Hagen on Broadway, a prescient advocate for African self-determination. He was also a stubborn apologist for communism, Stalin-style. In one Promethean personality were packed the power, glamour, pathos and tragedy of black dreams and leftist myopia in the 20th century...
...miles ahead. The vision is grander and warmer--as sweet as a child's growing love for a big ugly furry bear--right up to the marvelously satisfying final shot. In this film the real monsters are bad manners (represented by Steve Buscemi's nasty chameleon) and corporate myopia (James Coburn's pompous crab). The good guys are those who realize that laughter is stronger than fear. That's a message worth taking to heart these jittery days...
...afford to compromise what it is our aim to protect—the basic freedoms and civil liberties that all Americans enjoy. While increased security measures will no doubt become part of our daily lives, ultimately only the personal liberty our country embodies can combat the intellectual and moral myopia that leads to terrorism...
...Internet bust has sharpened attention on Wall Street's myopia anew. Credit Suisse First Boston, which underwrote the world's hottest IPO--VA Linux Systems--is at the center of a kickback dustup. At least three government agencies are investigating who got what and whether outsize fees later paid to the firm constitute an illegal payoff. Lawsuits are piling up faster than dead dotcoms...
Against that dreary background of official hubris, myopia and duplicity, it seems odd that former Senator Bob Kerrey is hitting newspaper headlines and television screens because of the revelation that his team of Navy SEALs killed innocent women and children while on a mission in the Mekong Delta. I reckon that thousands of grunts went through the same experience. But if what they did was appalling, it was comprehensible. In a way, they were victims of the machine that vaulted them into a hot, humid, shadowy, alien environment in which friend and foe were a blur, and all a potential...