Word: shortsightedness
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A born brawler and natural teller of war stories. Mailer gives us the coordinates of the enemy-the timid, shortsighted publishers who at first shrank from the novel's excoriating, charged treatment of Hollywood life. He tells of his anxieties and the state of his abused liver-which, if...
At its first meeting, the council formed ten subgroups, each to deal with specific problem areas such as crime, housing, welfare and mass transit. "The American national Government," said Nixon, "has responded to urban concerns in a haphazard, fragmented and often woefully shortsighted manner." He challenged the council to change...
Much of it is due to shortsighted overselling of the possibilities of evolutionary progress. Darwin's theories showed that man had evolved from primordial protoplasm. But that evolution from a lower to a higher form of life had taken some two billion years. (Biologist H. J. Muller has graphically...
Sir: You credit Albert Einstein with the origination in 1917 of the theory behind the laser [July 12]. The origin of the theory of the laser is credited to Columbia University Physicist Charles Townes, who conceived of the idea for the maser in 1951. The maser theory led directly to...
Wall Street fairly shuddered two years ago when Mayor John Lindsay urged a 50% increase in New York's stock-transfer tax. Brokers protested that the tax was already unfair to out-of-state investors, who account for 70% of the New York Stock Exchange's $130 billion...