Word: myopic
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...share a capacity not only for poking fun at folly but also for turning passing sorrow inside out. Standing in for Sullivan, Wayne and Shuster skittered nimbly through a confused-identity routine, belted out a metrically sound skit about a Shakespearean baseball team. Shrilled Catcher Wayne to a myopic umpire: "So fair a foul I have not seen. Accursed knave with heart as black as coat you wear upon your back! Now, for the bum thou art, stand'st thou revealed! Thy head is emptier than Ebbets Field...
...nation's best and healthiest literary quarterlies, used it to develop a new idea for literary criticism. Main tenet of the New Criticism, of which Ransom has been a principal architect: hard analysis of text and texture. When the hard analysis has threatened to degenerate into the myopic picking of microscopic nits. Ransom has kept his perspective, helped the pedants to regain theirs. Among the students and faculty members who have studied and taught at Kenyon: Poet Robert Lovell (Lord Weary's Castle), Poet Randall Jarrell, Novelist Robie Macaulay (The Disguises of Love...
...like James Dean. Beyond these, Chuck Starkweather accepted just two constants: 1) the world was against him, 2) when somebody's against you, fight back. This he learned in home town Lincoln, Neb. at Saratoga Elementary School, where the other boys made fun of his bandy legs, his myopic green eyes, his thick spectacles and a speech defect that made him say "wowse" for "house" and "awong" for "along." They backed off when Chuck bore in with fists flailing; they fled when he opened a knife...
...mainly a slow boy growing up too fast. Home again and locked in a special cell at the Nebraska penitentiary, Chuck himself showed signs of realizing that in the end the world had beaten him. He had been gay and insolent earlier; now, in ultimate defeat, he blinked his myopic eyes and became sullen and silent...
Myopia results when the eye's lens (just behind the pupil) cannot bring the incoming light rays into focus on the retina at the back of the eyeball but focuses them at a point in front of it. A myopic youngster's glasses have to be changed every year or two (sometimes oftener) because, as he grows, his eyeball lengthens and the out-of-focus effect gets worse. Though this early myopia usually stabilizes when growth ends, it may have become so severe that glasses could not possibly provide 20/20 or even 20/30 vision; some victims end with...