Word: myopic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paper has lately come in for some strong and pointed criticism. The editor of an Australian Catholic paper recently branded L'Osservatore "the Pravda of the Vatican." An editorial in the Tablet, Britain's leading Catholic weekly, complained about L'Osservatore's myopic coverage of the debate over birth control. "It is doing a great disservice to truth and to the health of the church," said the Tablet, "to ignore or gainsay this controversy, or, even worse, to convey the opposite impression that all is well...
...Because of the complete television coverage of the Democratic Convention, the nation was given the opportunity of realizing with sickening force the depths of hypocrisy and the myopic, manipulative selfishness of men like Mayor Daley (characterized by his abortive attempt to crush the spontaneous beauty and sincerity of the tribute for Robert Kennedy by his manufactured demonstration for himself). The goodness and concern of the people in our country who cannot tolerate such a prostitution of democracy will, I pray, triumph in their attempt to create the newer world of truth and love...
Tall (6 ft. 4 in. by the time he was 15) and myopic, Huxley grew up through Eton and Oxford to live in a thin, rarefied world of his own. His notion of conversation, Osbert Sitwell grumbled, was to relay data on the "incestuous mating of melons" or the "curious amorous habits of cuttlefish." In words that Clark applies to all the Huxleys, young Aldous seemed less a human being than "something more nearly approaching a controlled experiment...
...idiosyncratic geometry, all three angles are obtuse: Kurt Dreyer, fiftyish, owner of a prosperous department store, is suffused with a jocular egomania; Martha, his 34-year-old wife, beautiful and sybaritic, is dimmed by compulsively romantic restlessness and anticipation; Franz, Dreyer's youthful nephew and employee, is a myopic, precariously balanced bumpkin...
Mindful that the camera is often myopic, newscasters have been adding commentary to frame the picture in proper perspective. But the crush of hme leaves little time for reflection. "As journalists," says CBS's Eric Sevareid, "we are not keeping pace with realities; we report them but we do not truly understand them, so we do not really explain. Our problem is to find the techniques that will balance the spot news and the spot picture and put them in proportion." Until then, viewers must make their own judgments based on the realization that the news in pictures...