Word: myopically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nutty Professor is half a funny movie. As long as Jerry Lewis is minding his myopic business as Professor Kelp, an earnest idiot of a chemistry teacher, the laughs bubble up like soda dumped into acid. But Lewis never knows when to stop fiddling with the formula, and suddenly the comedy blows up in his face...
...recital, the two myopic friends were worried about missing each other's cues, but throughout their dazzling program neither faltered at all. Ashkenazy played with great excitement and vigor, and Frager-who also charmed the audience with his perfect Russian-was every bit his match. But the thing that made the evening electrifying was the evidence of such joy in music making, the proof of such harmony in friendship...
...Hero to Emulate. He is Belgian-born Georges Schoeters, 33, a nervous, myopic member of the FLQ's five-man "leadership committee." Husky and humorless, Schoeters (he pronounces it scooters) arrived from Belgium in 1951, telling stories of how he was a teen-age partisan against the Nazis in World War II. With the help of a sympathetic University of Montreal sociology professor, he quickly learned English, then entered the university to study economics. All went well for a while until he suffered a nervous breakdown from which, as one friend said, he emerged with a "terrific instability...
Pray Boru! Immodest as his words may sound, Shoriki is right. His optometrists consider him terribly myopic, but time after time he has proved himself dazzlingly farsighted. In the 1930s he introduced besuboru to Japan by bringing Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmy Foxx and Lefty O'Doul to the Orient for a barnstorming tour. An ultranationalist fanatic later hefted a broadsword and hacked a 16-in. scar into the left side of his head for permitting foreigners like the Bambino to desecrate sacred Meiji Stadium, but Shoriki went on to form Japan's first professional baseball league...
Broad Potential. In many ways, the man who brought the rescue plan to Washington was characteristic of today's Brazil. Finance Minister Francisco Clementino San Thiago Dantas, 51, is broad, myopic, ambitious, divided between left and right, and fairly bursting with brilliant potential. He graduated from the . National Law Faculty of the University "of Brazil at 20, went on to become one of the most successful corporation lawyers in the country. But in 1958 he turned left, joined Goulart's Brazilian Labor Party, and got himself elected a federal deputy from Minas Gerais state. In 1961, when Goulart...