Word: myopic
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...Myopic Magoo. Punsmoke it may be, but The Bullwinkle Show is accomplished with a light, delightful touch by Producers Jay Ward and Bill Scott. Their office is the living room of a house near Sunset Strip, and their wild enthusiasm often suggests the final hours before a college humor magazine is put to bed. Ward, 41, is a former real estate man who entered TV in 1947, conceiving, writing and co-producing Crusader Rabbit, the first original animated television cartoon. Scott, whose sketch pad now yields all the Bullwinkle characters, wrote scripts for U.P.A.'s The Nearsighted Mister Magoo...
...again and causes Ninian's downfall is a hopelessly immature, nearly illiterate 18-year-old whom he hires as his secretary. Unlike Lolita's Humbert Humbert, Ninian manages to convince himself that he is interested in the girl's mind: peering at a "modern" daub through myopic eyes, she had once by wildest mischance correctly identified a Dufy. In his passion for the girl, Ninian abandons his London art gallery, gets himself thrown into prison and eventually flees with his beloved to Spain...
...girl he married last week. Headed for Caltech to study astrophysics, Gunn thinks that "academic life is the only one that would suit me. I'm interested in problems that industry has no use for." Main ones: "The secrets of gravity and traveling to the stars." For if myopic man "ever becomes a galactic being." muses Gunn, "it will probably be a key to his maturing...
There is nothing myopic about their business vision. Two years ago, the brothers bought one-third of the land within the city limits of New Orleans-a tract of 32,000 acres. Because nearly all the land was swamp, they paid only $300 an acre. Now they are drying out the swamp by draining off the water, eventually plan a huge development of industry, homes, highways and commercial projects. They have already recovered their original investment by taking in additional partners, and have attracted one of the world's largest and most modern coffee-processing plants, operated...
...Radcliffe's fifth President, Mary I. Bunting pointed out in her Inaugural Address a year later, "The cartoonists did not precisely call the shots. They did not portray a white-coated figure shoving aside microscope and test-tube cultures to examine the culture on a woman's campus, a myopic biologist diverted from the study of heredity and variation in micro-organisms to stumble upon the astonishing mechanism of human evolution, our modern, creative multi-structured institutions of ever higher education...