Word: omit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...updated compilation of titles and statistics by Alice Payne Hackett, an editor of the trade magazine Publisher's Weekly, gives a highly useful perspective on the long-range trends beyond the weekly ups and downs, and also includes such items as dictionaries and cookbooks, which the weekly compilations omit. The volume shows how the paperback and population explosions have altered the bestseller concept. A really warm item in 1904 was Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, which so far has sold 1.4 million copies, nearly all of them in hard cover (it is still in print). Forever Amber has sold...
...G.I.s to Ben Sue, on the edge of the Viet Cong's Iron Triangle stronghold 30 miles northwest of Saigon; then he followed the uprooted villagers to a bleak camp behind barbed wire. He paints a picture of unremitting misery inspired by wanton cruelty-but he elects to omit details that would have colored it differently. For example, he has admitted to knowing that Propagandist Le Khanh Trung, one of the highest-ranking Viet Cong ever to fall into American hands, was found in Ben Sue; but he does not deem it worth mentioning in his book. Nor does...
Everybody, particularly the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese, realize that Goldberg's words are more significant for what they omit than for what they concede. And again, the U.S. has attempted to hide its intransigence over the bombing with meaningless words of encouragement for a cease-fire. The peace efforts, in turn, are inevitably doomed to failure as long as the bombing -- ineffectual and inflammatory at the same time -- continues...
...fact, though the federal legislation was carefully drawn to omit state spending, the mere participation of state officials may invite challenge. Many states also have their own vulnerable programs: New York, for example, is being attacked for lending public-school teachers and textbooks to parochial schools. Although the Maryland decision applies only to that state, it is sure to generate confusion and litigation elsewhere until the Supreme Court acts...
...writing "peephole history," of endangering the national interest. In his defense, he quoted British Philosopher Walter Bagehot: "When a historian withholds important facts likely to influence the judgment of his readers, he commits a fraud." (But Schlesinger himself ignored that injunction when, according to a friend, he decided to omit a similar account of how Kennedy had been planning to dump FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover...