Word: myopics
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...Play" and "The Islanders" (in which each child peopled an island with heroes of his own choice) fused into a game called "African Adventure," in which the soldiers, wrecked on the Guinea coast, fought the natives, established a colony and partitioned it into twelve kingdoms. Little, redheaded, myopic Branwell, aflame with invention, drew maps of the colony, drew up a constitution, manned the kingdoms with leaders, statesmen, newspaper and magazine editors...
Softspoken, middle-sized, myopic Marshall Field Jr., 44, has the mild, diffident mien of a church usher. Ho neither looks nor acts like a fighter, but the publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times and Daily News is enthusiastically engaged in a scrap. What is more, he picked it. With his two papers, Field is hurling a daily challenge at the late Robert Rutherford McCormick's big and powerful morning Tribune...
Explaining the fluctuation, Redmayne said that "a lot depends on the international problems facing the U.S." He pointed out that during the Korean War interest in the three services was very high. He also mentioned the rising level of myopic intellectuals in the University. More students, he lamented, are coming in with glasess and cannot pass the physical...
...myopic focus on military strength blinds us to our overriding common interests with all countries. We have a deep responsibility to contribute effectively and promptly to the economic and social development of other countries, instead of drawing them into the nuclear conflict. The great populations of Asia, Africa, and South America seek a more representative influence on world affairs. Only the creation of political and economic structures capable of realizing the technical possibilities and human potentialities can meet the needs of these dynamic societies. We must not impose the Cold War upon them, but encourage new solutions which...
...life," the D.A.R., the American Legion and Governor Barnett, to "clean up our textbooks" [May 16]: if the great enlightened state of Mississippi considers its educators less capable of deciding what is and is not to be taught in the schools than a combination of hysterical old women, myopic "Don Quixotes," prejudiced supremacist pressure groups and their puppets, I pity the next generation of Mississippi's children-condemned to a blinding, stifling ignorance...