Word: myopic
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...author of The Wine Is Bitter demonstrates a good knowledge of Latin American history but here, again, his interpretation is disturbingly--and typically--myopic. He talks at length of the "Latin Republics," recognizing only their economic situation as being much different from our own. There is virtually no discussion of the fact that republicanism itself is different in Latin America...
Then began a prolonged display of myopic ineptitude on the part of Los Angeles officialdom. With the newspapers playing the story for laughs-it was a case of "abducktion," one paper said-the machinery of justice clanked ponderously into motion. Officials decided that Lopez and his friends would be tried on charges of theft. Lawyers solemnly prepared briefs, detectives determinedly interrogated witnesses. Until the very end, nobody in the city government who was involved in the case seemed capable of seeing that what was called for was not mechanical law enforcement but compassion and common sense...
...Nutty Professor is half a funny movie. As long as Jerry Lewis is minding his myopic business as Professor Kelp, an earnest idiot of a chemistry teacher, the laughs bubble up like soda dumped into acid. But Lewis never knows when to stop fiddling with the formula, and suddenly the comedy blows up in his face...
...recital, the two myopic friends were worried about missing each other's cues, but throughout their dazzling program neither faltered at all. Ashkenazy played with great excitement and vigor, and Frager-who also charmed the audience with his perfect Russian-was every bit his match. But the thing that made the evening electrifying was the evidence of such joy in music making, the proof of such harmony in friendship...
...Hero to Emulate. He is Belgian-born Georges Schoeters, 33, a nervous, myopic member of the FLQ's five-man "leadership committee." Husky and humorless, Schoeters (he pronounces it scooters) arrived from Belgium in 1951, telling stories of how he was a teen-age partisan against the Nazis in World War II. With the help of a sympathetic University of Montreal sociology professor, he quickly learned English, then entered the university to study economics. All went well for a while until he suffered a nervous breakdown from which, as one friend said, he emerged with a "terrific instability...