Word: myopic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inflated prices you now have to pay in your supermarket can be directly traced to the huge budget deficits incurred before President Nixon took office in 1969. You are paying more for your food and clothing because fiscally myopic and politically irresponsible men were unwilling to live within the limits of federal income during a time of furious economic activity. The party and the men who fed that inflation have made careers of professing their heartfelt concern for the very poor and the elderly in our society. I know of nothing more cynical, more cruel, in American politics...
Pilot Syndrome. O'Leary was an unlikely candidate from the start. He was a civilian. He was myopic ("Astronauts don't wear glasses, and there I was wearing glasses"). His personality smacked more of Berkeley than of Houston. Nevertheless, at 27, a Ph.D. in astronomy and a skilled mountain climber, he was selected as a member of the sixth space-training program, the second group of scientist-astronauts. He resigned after seven months' intensive training because, ha decided, he wanted to go to the moon, not spend his time training to fly T-38 jets...
...like a prostitute talking about male sexual fantasies- she's seen them as bad as they can be. But, unbelievably, the exhibition at the Met seems to have missed the whole point of living in the City, Seventy years ago, what they've set up could have passed for myopic. No one could have been expected to fore-see the horrors that would develop from the humble beginnings. But now, in 1970, only someone who has never been to New York could construct such a vision of dreams-come true. I would have set up an exhibit pretty much like...
...Flatiron Building meekly poking its head out of downtown New York at the turn of the century- somewhat like a shy, prematurely tall sixth grader. A proud New York in 1903 might well have boasted of the Flatiron Building and the subjugation of business to beauty. Just a little myopic, we would...
...CRIMSON said. "Mark Gerzon's excursion into pop sociology reads like a work commissioned by Look Magazine.... Reaching for the profound insight. Gerzon ends up only with a smug revision of Youth Wants to Know.... Many of these ruminations on the younger generation make sense only from the myopic perspective of an Ivy League existence." Whether you will like the book depends, I, guess, on which journal you find yourself more in sympathy with...