Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Hoover after the event, stressing, "I don't think you can possibly realize the good that was done here last night...You have contributed more than a dozen classes and a score of periodicals to the enlightening of the student mind on all-important question [sic]." Attached was a blind copy from Buckley of a letter he wrote to Simon suggesting that the Crimson president "exercise a little control over the flamboyance of some of your men." Buckley continued to send blind copies of his correspondence with Simon to FBI officials...
...Carter is conspicuous by his absence. Once again he has been outmaneuvered, and took bad advice." The most scathing comment was made by the London Times, which editorially declared "that the United States is being led by a man who is not just muddled, but is in some way blind to whole areas of reality...
When the papal tour moved on to Kenya, the congregation in Nairobi's Uhuru (Freedom) Park numbered 600,000. The blind and crippled mingled in the throng in the hope of receiving a papal blessing, but it was difficult for multitudes in neighboring Tanzania and Uganda to attend. Tanzania has sealed its border with Kenya. Both Tanzania and Uganda refused to release exchange currency for those who wished to travel, though Uganda's President Godfrey Bi-naisa arrived anyway. Some got in without money. A Tanzanian woman from Moshi made it across the border by walking at night...
Vance is still puzzled by this one blind spot in a man whom he otherwise regards as a wise and potentially great statesman. Perhaps Carter's conviction that right makes might-that morality, truth and trust matter so much in politics-prevented him from viewing the Soviet Union more pragmatically at the outset, then caused him to overreact when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. Carter's lack of an intuitive grasp of how to deal with the Soviets, combined with his righteous wrath over their misbehavior, has made him all the more susceptible to what Vance sees as Brzezinski...
...example of decadence--decay of values--in which the only proposed action is laughing at oneself. Noam Chomsky has written about precisely this, the failure of the American intelligentsia profits-before-people policies, willfully blind and/or intimidated...