Word: myopic
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...where one myopic offering in your menagerie might focus on those didgeridoos, the Core of tomorrow might undertake a cross-study of flutes in their many incarnations, from the pan-flutes of the Roman and Greek empires to the lesser-known (but no less important) Papuan and Khoisan flutists—perhaps even Bach’s flute sonatas would make a brief appearance. All in the name of a general education...
Having twice been beaten by a strain of Republicanism that we believe is hurting America, the challenge is where to go from here. How to move on without going the myopic, unproductive route of Moveon.org—a group whose Bush-hatred is so blinding that its leadership actually opposed toppling the Taliban...
Your review of Howard Cosell's I Never Played the Game [BOOKS, Oct. 28] was ironic. Throughout the book Cosell attacks his critics for taking myopic swipes at his personality, when the value of his work lies in his examinations of the sociology of sport. Your review proves him accurate. Whether Cosell is self-aggrandizing or not is immaterial. The point is that he is singularly capable of engaging a mass audience and forcing them to think about sports in sophisticated terms. Thomas M. Petersen Lafayette, Calif...
...recording industry has gained a new partner in its myopic campaign of strict copyright law enforcement: the publishing industry. What publishers oppose, however, is far more significant than the freedom to shuffle between Bruce Hornsby and U2 on an iPod. When a group of publishers announced last week that they disapproved of a Harvard University Libraries (HUL) project to digitize a portion of Harvard’s books, they declared their hostility toward the enrichment and advancement of the academic world...
...business community has not been immune. In the 1970s and '80s, amid the euphoria of Japan's economic miracle, Japanese business leaders were contemptuous of the dry (read: unsentimental), short-term (read: myopic) obsession with the bottom line that in their view characterized American corporations. In the past 10 years, that attitude has reversed. A Japanese executive recently told me, "Japanese business is trying frantically to adopt an American style of management, and the result is turmoil and confusion. As financial performance continues to drop, top management demands a management revolution?that is, a total denial of our traditional ways...