Word: myopic
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...think I could go on with my work abroad," he says. "Where could I find a place overseas that looks like the Chinese countryside?" That is the capping irony: China never looked more ravishing than it does through Zhang's camera eye. The censors never looked more myopic than when they suppressed and orphaned the most intelligently gorgeous film since The Last Emperor...
...authors whom I respect--Michael Walzer's in The New Republic and Joshua Sharfstein's in The Crimson ["Protestors Mistake Iraq for Vietnam," Jan. 23]--I have decided to join the anti-war movement. Weak as many arguments against the a may be, the liberal support is just as myopic but far more destructive...
Predictions of the social impact of mass communications and computers were equally myopic. Bernard Finn, of the Smithsonian's division of electricity, notes that the sending of the first transatlantic cable message in 1858 was widely hailed as an event that would introduce an era of world peace because it would enhance communication between different peoples. Shortly afterward, the U.S. Civil War broke out, and the opposing armies took over telegraph offices, establishing a coupling between information technology and warfare that continues to the present...
...practice, this is not always possible. In diverse societies, people cannot be myopic, and as Lawrence Duncan III notes, must be "tolerant and understanding." These ideas must be, however, applied in all walks of life, not just with respect to race, culture, or similar issues...
...myopic person, Asian-Americans are different from other Americans--members of a distinct, foreign group rather than individuals on equal standing with others...