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There quickly followed an unseemly scramble to ensure oil deliveries on a purely nationalist basis, an "I'm all right. Jack" attitude that prompted London Times Columnist Bernard Levin to write: "The fact is that nothing in the realms of cowardice, selfishness, cant and shortsighted folly is beyond the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Toward a Winter of Discontent | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

Is there anything wrong in being "incessantly erotic," abstract as the resulting images may be? Not to Nagare. As he admits, he has become shortsighted, and with his new glasses "I see pores on ladies' faces I did not know were there.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Please Touch | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

THE DECISION of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life not to sponsor a student referendum on ROTC was shortsighted, dangerous and anti-democratic. The CHUL failed as a representative agency of undergraduates and acted out of the most self-defeating myopic brand of bureaucratic caution.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHUL and ROTC | 10/17/1973 | See Source »

THE MAJORITY opinion editorial on CHUL's refusal to sponsor a student referendum on ROTC voices its abhorrence of that decision in grandiose and self-righteous terms. It brands the committee as "shortsighted, dangerous and anti-democratic," "elitist" and "incredibly arrogant." In a devastating conclusion, it calls on students to...

Author: By Leo FJ. Wilking, | Title: The CHUL Was Right | 10/17/1973 | See Source »

. The major problem in this country is that it is being run by shortsighted idiots.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 9, 1973 | 7/9/1973 | See Source »

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