Word: shortsightedness
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They asked little of life but independence, and that had a price. Through the '20s and '30s Newfoundlanders knew hard times. Their underdeveloped, underpopulated (300,000) island has never been self-sufficient. They imported much of what they ate. When world markets dried, and the full impact of...
In substance, the Army's shortsighted orientation program has come home to roost. Five years of inviolate, incompetent officer rule spreading its vile propaganda of chauvinism and prejudice; five years of "controlled" forums and news services where all political topics were taboo . . . five years of pompously proclaiming to the...
With righteous wrath, the Winnipeg Free Press, usually partial to Liberal Government doings, let go with both barrels: "Outrageous! ... A concession to the stupid, shortsighted and selfish interests of economic nationalism. . . . The issue is the future trade policy of Canada. . . . If the protectionists get away with this first assault, the...
I guess the trouble is that the average American is too selfish and shortsighted. He wants peace and a big navy and world security, but he wants and expects someone else to do all the work for him. . . . Perhaps we are not a great people essentially, except in our wishes...
In Low's famed cartoons, Blimp acts out in black & white, by one class and political reflex after another, the whole tragicomic history of a special kind of British stupidity. The screen's version of Blimp, in rosy Technicolor, is not a Low specimen of humanity at all...