Word: myopic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plucky Myopic. Reckless physical bravery is often expected of Kennedy guests, and the quickest road to acceptance for an outsider is some act of dazzling physical courage. As many as three "draggers" hang onto life preservers towed behind the Kennedy sloop Victura. The stiffer the breeze, the better the sport-since the dragger thus swallows more waves and finds it harder not to drown...
...Communism away from the Communists." He got small thanks from Michael Gold, a man of small talent and great authority who functioned as a sort of U.S. cultural commissar for the party. Wrote Gold (later, of course): "Wilson ascended the 'proletarian bandwagon' with the arrogance of a myopic, high-bosomed Beacon Hill matron entering a common streetcar...
Shame on TIME for its myopic peek at dynamic Detroit...
...Myopic Magoo. Punsmoke it may be, but The Bullwinkle Show is accomplished with a light, delightful touch by Producers Jay Ward and Bill Scott. Their office is the living room of a house near Sunset Strip, and their wild enthusiasm often suggests the final hours before a college humor magazine is put to bed. Ward, 41, is a former real estate man who entered TV in 1947, conceiving, writing and co-producing Crusader Rabbit, the first original animated television cartoon. Scott, whose sketch pad now yields all the Bullwinkle characters, wrote scripts for U.P.A.'s The Nearsighted Mister Magoo...
...again and causes Ninian's downfall is a hopelessly immature, nearly illiterate 18-year-old whom he hires as his secretary. Unlike Lolita's Humbert Humbert, Ninian manages to convince himself that he is interested in the girl's mind: peering at a "modern" daub through myopic eyes, she had once by wildest mischance correctly identified a Dufy. In his passion for the girl, Ninian abandons his London art gallery, gets himself thrown into prison and eventually flees with his beloved to Spain...