Word: myopic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Myopic Eye. The danger of such a credo, of course, is that the camera gives a distorted view that no amount of voice narration can dispel. A few hours after the King assassination, one Manhattan station showed a film jump ing with sirens, flashing lights and wrestling figures, which made it seem as if Times Square was a battleground. Lost in the scuffle was the announcer's voice-over saying that the damage consisted of two broken windows...
...another large segment of exiles, the rationale is less articulate and perhaps myopic. Most of the radical Americans in Montreal are either college dropouts or recent graduates. But the publicity that has attended their exodus has filtered down to a younger and more naive group. More and more high-school dropouts, teeny-boppers, and hippies are arriving in Montreal armed with little money and less ability to rationalize what they are doing here...
...enclosed with low cattle fences-though the caribou inside can jump like kangaroos. The fair's bearded, ebullient president, electric-company executive Don Vogwill, 43, still has not figured out what to do about the enclosure's moose population: during rutting season, a hostile, amorous or plain myopic bull moose could knock the tiny train off its tracks...
Celestial Robes. Lowell came early to his vocation. He was a fifth-form schoolboy at St. Marks, the prestigious Episcopal prep school in Southborough, Mass., when he received his calling. Awkward, myopic, shy, dull in class except in history, he shambled about the sham Tudor buildings. His friends called him "Cal," after Caligula, because he was so uncouth; he liked that, and today is still known as Cal. His nature became clear to classmates after he started reading commentaries on the Iliad and Dante's Inferno. As his roommate, Artist Frank Parker, recalls: "The point was that you could...
...should decide what the real alternatives are? By hand-feeding the public a kind of capsulated, easily digestible solution to foreign affaris problems, Reston runs the risk of allowing hundreds of myopic editors across the nation the opportunity to disguise their bias as the best alternatives. The front pages of today's newspapers may often seem chaotic, but straight reporting is probably less pernicious than an over-simplified account which imposes a particular point of view on the reader...