Word: myopic
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...doused with violent perfumes. The blond prince entered the dressing room of the leading lady, a famed courtesan. She greeted him with coy, voluptuous respect, in tantalizing deshabille. The little dressing room was filled with starchy gentlemen, shouting amid the gay popping of corks. To one side stood a myopic, corpulent, bearded figure. His squinting eyes turned ceaselessly, his nostrils twitched. He was Emile Zola, novelist. He had persuaded Ludovic Halevy, boulevardier & librettist, to bring him there. The Prince stared at the bosom and hips of his hostess. Emile Zola stared also, fixed her image in his mind. Later...
...over specialization in the latter part of one's course is becoming more and more the defect of the Harvard system. Overzealous tutors encourage their charges to get their distribution off in their first two years--out of the way like an old shoe. Students attentive to this somewhat myopic suggestion often find themselves forgetting the excellencies outside their field just as they are acquiring the maturity to enjoy them. One of the purposes of Harvard's present system is the elimination of this sort of thing, and it is unfortunate that the Ph.D attitude occasionally mitigates its potential usefulness...
...good fellowship which go to make the ordinary run of politicians. He spoke on "Currents in Business." Another speaker was Representative Ogden L. Mills, one of the financial experts in the House, a leader on the Ways and Means Committee, able, wealthy, polished, impatient of loose thinking as of myopic finance. He spoke on "State and Local Taxation." The third politician was not chosen from the Republican ranks, is not in the arena of national politics although standing in its doorway?the Governor of a state?Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland...
...other way does the November Advocate show its rejuvenation more strikingly than in its editorials; tinged with a deliciously pungent humor, they stand a sturdy proof that Mother Advocate has abandoned her myopic spectacles of prejudice and reaction to gaze forth once more with the vision of the real Harvard. Prose and verse, fiction and discussion, all show, the same freshness, and are of almost equal merit...
...secret of true greatness, as it is revealed to us in the lives of great men is comprehended in the sum of the two terms vision plus valor. It is the vision which is not so myopic as to be confined to one narrow channel of existence, but which has the power to view life as a whole and to interpret aright the rights and duties of human beings one toward another; it is the vision which is not so steeped in the lore of the past that it is blinded to the great movements and tendencies which...