Word: myopic
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This kind of argument, of course, isn't political science at all--it's good, old-fashioned editorial journalism. We turn to the practitioners of this dying art when the political scientists, office-holders, and bureaucrats who run our society become myopic and need the aid of minds less mired in the supposed "possible." Hirschorn himself could assume this role, if he'd lift his nose from the rulebooks. Scott A. Rosenberg...
Here she has taped some fairly scatty memoirs, edited by George Plimpton and Christopher Hemphill. The plentiful italics of her speech are faithfully reproduced along with chatty asides, myopic anecdotes and bits of advice (see a dentist early in the day because a tired one is "very tough...
Professor Dershowitz's subsequent statements and actions have been hysterical, inflammatory and totally unwarranted. In addition, the frenzied condemnation made by Professors Martin Kilson and Orlando Patterson, and which appeared in last Wednesday's Crimson, is factually inaccurate, myopic, and deserves no further response...
Ronald Reagan's ballistic missile merry-go-round simply isn't worth the cost. The President wants us to pursue the mirage of absolute security in an age when weapons of mass destruction make such security impossible. Only myopic could lead us to break a successful arms accord, destroy our European alliance, and spark an arms race for the sake of a new Maginot line which would never work. Spending tens of billions of dollars researching a fatally flawed idea, and perhaps hundreds of billions implementing it would indeed require blindness on a national scale...
Jackson's continued ranting about Jewish influence-peddling and his recent Newsweek interview on Black-Jewish relations show that the public uproar over the "Hymie" remarks and Farrakhan's statements has done nothing to change Jackson's myopic stereotypes...