Word: myopics
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...such freedom may be destroyed by the myopic teacher who will not discuss the great issues of the day because he does not know what they are. The vitality of the medieval university was thus destroyed when scholasticism lost touch with reality. So also, the renaissance university became decadent when, in the eighteenth century, the classics stopped being exciting and became merely edifying. In both cases, academic freedom was subverted from within, as the interior logic of the 'discipline' replaced the experience of the scholar as the final arbiter of truth...
...traditional onslaught of New Year's Day bowl games left television viewers slightly myopic, more than a little dubious about the true merits of some of the top-ranked U.S. college teams...
...circ. 351,439) hemmed and hawed until five days before the election and then endorsed Democrat Averell Harriman for re-election as New York Governor. At that eleventh hour its minced-hearted editorial ("Whatever his failures and shortcomings . . . we favor Harriman's re-election") read as if a myopic makeup man had misplaced several paragraphs. Post readers thought all this rather strange, but it was only the beginning...
Small planes swooped overhead, streaming smoke as they traced the curves of her initials. All Venice got the message: Brigitte Bardot was arriving. Myopic judges might still be watching movies-including the U.S. entry, God's Little Acre, which none of them seemed to dig-but the loth biennial international film festival already belonged to the sultry feline from France...
...Williams (batting .298 at week's end) and New York's Yogi Berra (.217). New faces popped up everywhere in the lineups. Only one man was everybody's choice: St. Louis' Stan ("The Man") Musial was a unanimous pick (discounting a lone myopic dissenter) for National League first baseman...