Word: myopically
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...anthology is a sort of zoo. The literary lions are not at their best caged up away from their own kind, and may look ridiculous if housed next door to a morose musk ox or an albino bandicoot. Even the labels may go wrong, and the surly, myopic wombat is advertised as a Thomson's gazelle. But the zoogoers don't mind. They have always known that some animals are nicer than others. So it is with anthologies; they are compiled for those who have been taught to be kind to writers but are nervous as to whether...
...driving a blue and white snowmobile, for a deer? A Minnesota hunter did just that last month and shot the boy dead. In Maine, Edwin Horr, 60, was sitting on a rock, smoking, when he was shot - in the right knee, left calf and left thigh - by a myopic marksman who thought that the smoke of Horr's cigarette was the rump of a white-tailed buck...
...Parseghian hadn't recognized the ability of Terry Hanratty and Jim Seymour, he would have had to be the most myopic football coach between Juárez and Sault Sainte Marie. By the time they were seniors in high school, they were two of the hottest young prospects in the U.S. Both were all-conference, all-state (Terry in Pennsylvania, Jim in Michigan) and All-America. And both got scholarship feelers from more than 40 colleges...
...clever gimmicks. Chumley has mastered an idiot grin, and cartwheels admirably across the stage. Miss Bush and her counterpart Dame Chat (Joan Tolentino) scream too much, but their grimaces and multicolor petticoats (Lewis Smith's costuming is superb) more than compensate. In smaller parts, David Dunton as a myopic curate is the only actor to read, rather than chant his lines, and his care pays off in laughs. Ed Jay, Jr., as a sleepy Linus-figure with a patchwork blanket, is trapped in his one sight gag, but is pleasant enough...
Reston's plea for more subjective, long-range thinking invites dangers which straight news reporting avoids. There are probably hundreds of myopic reporters all over the country who are itching to outline in their news stories their concept of what foreign policy should be. Reston's case studies would have to be censored by an intelligent editor in order to bring the readers an accurate version of what the options open to the Administration really...