Word: myopically
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...fulfill its dichotomous mission (as described in Courses of Instruction), which is to ensure that students are "broadly educated" and to teach them "approaches to knowledge in areas that the faculty considers indispensable to undergraduate education." These goals are sabotaged by several factors, which include limited offerings, a myopic focus on "micro-events," and a general insistence on the part of the Core office to professors that they "dumb down" classes...
...reels, though, things get goofy. Suddenly every room is preposterously dark; the most powerful men in town can't afford decent light bulbs. Pacino's performance turns crazily manic: when he gives an oration for the dead child, his wild hand gestures read like sign language for the myopic. And director Harold Becker should know that no movie is allowed to use You'll Never Walk Alone unless the intent is comic...
...things get goofy," says TIME's Richard Corliss. "Suddenly every room is preposterously dark; the most powerful men in town can?t afford decent light bulbs. Pacino?s performance turns crazily manic: when he gives an oration for a dead child, his wild hand gestures read like sign language for the myopic." Nostalgia is the chief feature of "City Hall", notes Corliss. "The film harkens back a decade or two, to the days when New York pols with great names -- Meade Esposito, Stanley Steingut --swaggered toward a tragic destiny. Movies are still in love with the romance of corruption. They need...
Selective amnesia is certainly the most mature and healthy approach. I also applaud his perceptive observation: "ethnic groups tend to have a myopic view of history, remembering their own history and nothing else." The pedestrian observer might peruse a typical high school history book and conclude that all types of students, ethnic or otherwise, must learn their share of mainstream US history...
...wrong! I think learning history is wonderful--as long as you know all of it. After all, George Santayana said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." But ethnic groups often tend to have a myopic view of history, remembering their own history and nothing else...