Word: myopic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tregaskis achieves a myopic happy ending. When Kamehameha died, he left his dynasty seemingly secure in the hands of a crown prince with the Lady Kaahumanu as regent. Even a short-ranged epilogue would have shown the dynasty and the island's culture disintegrating under the white man's burden of greed and commerce. ∎Laurence I. Barrett
...laws-most of the movie consists of flashbacks to the period be fore divorce became legal in Italy-but also marriage itself. The trouble with it, according to Germi, is mostly women. That is the trouble with the movie, too, in a way. It is constructed around a sour, myopic kind of misogyny, not quite deft or witty enough to cut through the un pleasant taste of bile...
OWLS OF THE WORLD edited by John A. Burton. 216 pages. Dutton. $14.95. Probably because their faces seem human and often take on a scholarly look of myopic wisdom, owls have enjoyed a formidable mythological reputation. Not that the more than 130 species distributed throughout the world are aware of it. As Editor Burton establishes in this remarkably illustrated survey, owls are not philosophers but predators, perfectly equipped for their occupation. They have front-set eyes that give them exceptional binocular vision. Their heads rotate 270 degrees. Their hearing is extremely acute, partially because on most nocturnal species saucer-shaped...
Even though the Delta 2000 works exactly according to plan--and if a computer can't, what can--I don't like it or any other computer any better for having seen Hall's wonder-baby in operation. Maybe I'm myopic, but I just don't see the beauty in a machine, even if it does save Harvard a buck or two. And maybe I'm naive, but if Harvard really cares about equalling and surpassing its "competition," it had better pay less attention to expensive computers and more to the things that really count in making a university...
...been a propensity to lean on the U.S.," insisted one Defense official. "The Europeans cannot use the U.S. as a crutch and pretend they don't have a contribution to make. The U.S. cannot tolerate half of an involvement." The allies, he added, should look beyond their own myopic, regional interests and realize that in the long run, American actions in the Middle East will keep Arab oil out of the clutches of the Russians. The allies are mistaken, he noted further, if they think American forces in Europe are committed only to NATO. In fact, he said, they...