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...self-deluded. In praising the 10 official nominees, he carefully notes that the 13 persons on his Nominating Committee "represent a diversity of backrounds and experience." Perhaps. But on the evidence of what they produced, they either did not follow through on the logic of their diversity is pretty myopic: of the ten official nominees, nine are either current of retired CEO's, chairs or partners in investment banking, real estate, law firms, and other large corporations. Not a single one of the candidates says a word about divestment, which The New York Times (April 5, 1986) referred...
...protesters later drafted a letter to the Secretary General of the Model U.N., Larisa R. Wright '87, accusing the conference organizers of "extremely poor and myopic judgment" in inviting Smith to deliver the keynote address...
...truly unbelievable. Pete Rose, Julius Irving, Wayne Gretzky...the list of magnificent athletes is endless. Weekly, I am presented with the myopic American ideal of excellence: sweaty, scantily clad individuals, almost exclusively men, in various stages of exertion. Thank God for the swimsuit issue. For those of us who were consistently chosen last in grade-school kickball and who crawled through the Presidential Physical Fitness test, it is a welcome, yet brief, respite from fifty-one weeks of pornography. Michael A. Snyder...
...MYOPIC MODERN HERO; Einstein on the beach without a paradigm; Steven Jay Gould gone off the deep end in search of the gecko and the albino gorilla--the name of this man is Mr. Palomar...
Like the old-maidish son Ezra, whose nostalgia for family dinners inspires the idea to open The Homesick Restaurant, the Learys are sexless, neutral creatures whose homesick tendencies keep them permanently sheltered. Determined to save herself from a similarly myopic fate, Sarah bails out on a marriage run to entropy. The frustrated, impatient sister Penelope scornfully calls Macon "an armchair traveller," an Odysseus who can't even get up a sense of adventure...