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Word: shortsights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...doctor has come down with the disease; the historian has fallen prey to the shortsight that he attributed to his subjects. Stott's chronicle is infected with the type of superficial thinking and weak-minded analysis that an overemphasis on "authenticity" and the "universality" of feelings created in the culture of the thirties...

Author: By William E. Forbath, | Title: Smiling Sharecroppers | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

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