Word: myopic
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...enclosed with low cattle fences-though the caribou inside can jump like kangaroos. The fair's bearded, ebullient president, electric-company executive Don Vogwill, 43, still has not figured out what to do about the enclosure's moose population: during rutting season, a hostile, amorous or plain myopic bull moose could knock the tiny train off its tracks...
...should decide what the real alternatives are? By hand-feeding the public a kind of capsulated, easily digestible solution to foreign affaris problems, Reston runs the risk of allowing hundreds of myopic editors across the nation the opportunity to disguise their bias as the best alternatives. The front pages of today's newspapers may often seem chaotic, but straight reporting is probably less pernicious than an over-simplified account which imposes a particular point of view on the reader...
...portraits also pay myopic tribute to Egypt's power to assimilate its conquerors. All are mummy portraits, painted during the lifetime of the subject, which were hung in the home, then affixed to the graveclothes after death. Names and occupations, inscribed on a few of the portraits, show that they were of wealthy government officials, schoolteachers, matrons or businessmen from a variety of racial backgrounds. All, evidently, subscribed to the Egyptian religion, which required the preservation of the body so that it could be united with Osiris after death...
However laudable this may be, the view that the settlement will do much to help the 17,000 Negro students in Boston's imbalanced schools is myopic. In practical terms, the plan offers them nothing. While serving as a symbol of the State Board's and the School Committee's agreement on some final aims, the latest solution is, in its specifics, mostly a bit of overdrawn wishful thinking...
Sachar's stress on faculty members teaching more courses showed "the Administration has not changed its myopic view," Rabkin said. Rabkin asked why the Administration couldn't take more action itself--by hiring more teachers, for example...