Word: myopically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. H. T. (Harold Tucker) Webster, 67, cartoonist ("The Timid Soul," "Life's Darkest Moment," "The Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime") of a heart attack; on a train near Bridgeport, Conn. Webster's most popular creation was fluttery, myopic Caspar Milquetoast, but he was nearly as well-known for his cartooned jibes at bridge and canasta fiends, radio & TV (for which he received a Peabody Award in 1950), wives who never understand a joke, and for his knowing, sometimes poignant recollections of a turn-of-the-century childhood...
Poor Seltzer! His myopic left eye kept him from being a navigator, and he never could find the office of the Geodetic Survey, and within a month the Army drafted him. Unwise, unprepared, he was told that his best aptitude was automobile mechanics and was assigned to bus tables at a cooks' school, where, because of an administrative error, he has spent the past 17 years...
...salad days of war, meek, myopic Prince Hironobu Fushimi, distant cousin of Emperor Hirohito, was a middle-aged captain in the Imperial navy. His country's defeat left him a civilian, and like other kinsmen of the Imperial family, without title. His Tokyo mansion had been bombed; he built himself a modest cottage on the site of the ruins. There he and his wife, the former Princess Hanako Kanin, settled down as plain Mr. & Mrs. Hironobu Kacho...
Outstanding are Thayer David as the myopic Monsieur Organ, Priscilla Morrill as the spunky maid, and Paul Ballantyne as an Enlightened bourgeois. Jan Farran is a tempting Madam Organ, and Jerry Kilty is, just as he should be, incredibly impetuous as Monsieur Organ's son. Kilty parodies--with the utmost skill--Baroque music and Baroque graces in a lyric which he has written for Louis XIV, who, by the way, is seated in the Brattle Royal Box. And then there is Fred Gwynne who during the Prologue wanders in briefly as a most foppish of fops...
...wrong with the House measure. ECA's open market buying finds far better bargains than the parity prices payed for surplus crops; if further buying is curtailed, the government would probably have to boost its surplus purchases an equal amount to keep up farm prices. And there is a myopic self-interest behind the bill. For to many Congressmen's annoyance, ECA, perhaps more than any other government agency, has managed to remain free of political free-loading. The bill would finally permit the farmer's representative a chance to steer his constituents a little government cash...