Word: myopic
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Poor Martin's blackguardism indicates that he has a contemptuous disregard for people and ideas that fail to adhere to the myopic Southern conservative nature of his convictions...
...Henry Murray which attempted to see beyond the confines of jealously guarded academic departments to the possibility of a unified science of man and which provided so much of the original impetus to the formation of the department. How sad to see such a marvelous hope trampled upon by myopic academic politicos eagerly staking out their narrowly confined specialist turf...
...about it. When Barbara Westman says "Cambridge" she is really talking Harvard. Her book never wanders any farther east than Quincy Street, which is why she can cozily insist that "Cambridge is like a small town really-not like a city." As a result her collection is not only myopic, it is also alarmingly ingenuous. Before presenting her drawings, Miss Westman tells...
...CRIMSON said, "Mark Gerzon's excursion into pop sociology reads like a work commissioned by Look Magazine... Reaching for the profound insight, Gerzon ends up only with a smug revision of Youth Wants to Know... Many of these ruminations on the younger generation make sense only from the myopic perspective of an Ivy League existence." Whether you will like the book depends. I guess, on which journal you find yourself more in sympathy with...
...inflated prices you now have to pay in your supermarket can be directly traced to the huge budget deficits incurred before President Nixon took office in 1969. You are paying more for your food and clothing because fiscally myopic and politically irresponsible men were unwilling to live within the limits of federal income during a time of furious economic activity. The party and the men who fed that inflation have made careers of professing their heartfelt concern for the very poor and the elderly in our society. I know of nothing more cynical, more cruel, in American politics...