Word: myopic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Americans will continue to suffer violence until those in power can grant to others what they have in the past violently demanded for themselves: a fully fair slice of the pie or an independent share of the territory. The book, moreover, offers a sensible corrective to the myopic and apocalyptic view adopted by many Americans who are unfamiliar with the past: because violence is in the air and on the streets, everything is going to hell. But Rubenstein also runs some risk of being misread. Sloppily read by others, he might seem to be saying: "Violence is good...
...instant analyses of The Pusey Years is bound to be both famous and myopic-famous because. The Years are not over yet, and myopic because the late sixties have put disproportionate stress on one side of Pusey's personality. In the tumult of the last three years, it has been easy to see Pusey's shortcomings-his seeming inability to make either Faculty or students feel he was at all concerned with them-but much harder to see his strengths...
MANY of these ruminations on the younger generation make sense only from the myopic perspective of an Ivy League existence. Mark Gerzon attends Harvard. Here students take only liberal arts. Most of them come from liberal cosmopolitan, highly affluent backgrounds. Though small in number, they have enough spending money to finance a major "youth culture ara." The high proportion of boarders also sets Harvard apart: one lives in virtual isolation from the adult world-and the outside world...