Word: myopically
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...Orioles are no less myopic than the other American League teams that have been chasing the phantom fastballs of Vida (as in Ida) Blue (as in lightning). After losing the season opener to the Washington Senators, he won ten games in a row and became a kind of fireballing folk hero. When he posted victory No. 11 against the New York Yankees, the largest crowd to see a night game in Yankee Stadium in three years turned out for what was billed as "Blue Tuesday." Five days later, Blue won No. 12 in Washington before 40,246 fans, the Senators...
Characteristically, the quiet Secretary of State appears too seldom in the papers to be either hurt or helped?although his reluctance to put every hasty thought on paper now looks wise. The Joint Chiefs played their usual strong, if myopic role, continually urging sterner measures, but not with any overblown certainty of victory...
...someone who would like to disengage the U.S. from the rest of the world and return to a 19th century insularity. No doubt some Americans are experiencing an emotional recoil from foreign commitments, as a result of Viet Nam and domestic troubles. But apart from a small group of myopic radicals totally obsessed with the need for revolution at home, there are hardly any real isolationists left...
...white. Their press had made him. Their financial support had underwritten his activities. Their power protected him from acts of Gothic violence like those that had cancelled the lives of Emmet Till, Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner, and the four girls in the bombed church at Birmingham. Made myopic by his ego and his mendacious assumptions about the nature of America, King had not yet perceived the motivation that had caused this support to be accorded him, nor the conditions under which it was given. Instead, he regarded it as a spontaneous outpouring of moral sentiment, dictated by the Zeitgeist. His forensic...
...example, although Alex can see through the surface exploitation of the venal producer's scenarios, he fails to perceive his own desires to inject issues like the war, racism and pollution into his own film as critically. And Mazurky merely corroborates Alex's myopic vision...