Word: myopically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Small planes swooped overhead, streaming smoke as they traced the curves of her initials. All Venice got the message: Brigitte Bardot was arriving. Myopic judges might still be watching movies-including the U.S. entry, God's Little Acre, which none of them seemed to dig-but the loth biennial international film festival already belonged to the sultry feline from France...
...Williams (batting .298 at week's end) and New York's Yogi Berra (.217). New faces popped up everywhere in the lineups. Only one man was everybody's choice: St. Louis' Stan ("The Man") Musial was a unanimous pick (discounting a lone myopic dissenter) for National League first baseman...
...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...
...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...