Word: myopic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...portraits also pay myopic tribute to Egypt's power to assimilate its conquerors. All are mummy portraits, painted during the lifetime of the subject, which were hung in the home, then affixed to the graveclothes after death. Names and occupations, inscribed on a few of the portraits, show that they were of wealthy government officials, schoolteachers, matrons or businessmen from a variety of racial backgrounds. All, evidently, subscribed to the Egyptian religion, which required the preservation of the body so that it could be united with Osiris after death...
However laudable this may be, the view that the settlement will do much to help the 17,000 Negro students in Boston's imbalanced schools is myopic. In practical terms, the plan offers them nothing. While serving as a symbol of the State Board's and the School Committee's agreement on some final aims, the latest solution is, in its specifics, mostly a bit of overdrawn wishful thinking...
Sachar's stress on faculty members teaching more courses showed "the Administration has not changed its myopic view," Rabkin said. Rabkin asked why the Administration couldn't take more action itself--by hiring more teachers, for example...
...anthology is a sort of zoo. The literary lions are not at their best caged up away from their own kind, and may look ridiculous if housed next door to a morose musk ox or an albino bandicoot. Even the labels may go wrong, and the surly, myopic wombat is advertised as a Thomson's gazelle. But the zoogoers don't mind. They have always known that some animals are nicer than others. So it is with anthologies; they are compiled for those who have been taught to be kind to writers but are nervous as to whether...
...driving a blue and white snowmobile, for a deer? A Minnesota hunter did just that last month and shot the boy dead. In Maine, Edwin Horr, 60, was sitting on a rock, smoking, when he was shot - in the right knee, left calf and left thigh - by a myopic marksman who thought that the smoke of Horr's cigarette was the rump of a white-tailed buck...