Word: myopically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mikado. In "Was I Wazir," with an accompaniment wisely lifted from Wonderful Town rather than In Central Asia,Calvin has one of the best bits in the show. Joan Diener, as the Wazir's crrant wife, is sultry and sarcastic, with a figure to please even the most myopic in the second balcony. With comic relish, she joins Drake in the slaughter of a smutty little horror called "Oasis of Delightful Imaginings" ("The breeze that cools the dunes there has an opposite effect on the pantaloons there."). Doretta Morrow is piquant as Kismet's sole ingenue, particularly in "Stranger...
...CHAMPION BLUNDERER, headlined the middle-of-the-road People of Lucknow, meaning the U.S. "An affront to peace," said the big Times of India. "History will not pardon her [the U.S.]" said Calcutta's conservative Amrita Bazar Patrika, "if humanity is pushed into another holocaust by her myopic politicians." But there were notable exceptions to the cries of grief and indignation. In staunchly anti-Communist Greece and Turkey, pro-government papers backed the U.S. position. In London, Beaverbrook's Daily Express raised a lone voice blaming the government for letting India "drive a wedge between Britain...
...Petersburg (now Leningrad). Molotov studied Marx, and in a dark, musty cellar pledged his life and liberty to the Bolshevik party. He was 16 and "sentimental"- a "slight, fragile youth," as one of the comrades described him, "with wild hair and a small, pale face lighted with brilliant, myopic eyes burning under a bulging brow...
...mental perfection and a rigor of expression belonging to the most accomplished and the most experienced, an artist who has given up all the illusions of youth." The esthetes rolled their eyes. "He dominated us all," says Jean Cocteau, "by his wisdom, his calm, and the clairvoyance of his myopic eyes turned inward...
...contraceptive, gromwell [TIME, Oct. 6]: may I say that this business of scientists working their heads off trying to discover something the old Shoshone Indians have known for ages is discouraging enough in itself, but why don't these myopic researchers take a course in simple Latin and discover what the old Roman botanical titles of these herbs meant in the first place? Even a schoolboy can tell at a glance that Lithospermum officinale means "seed petrified in the laboratory" . . . Gromwell indeed...