Word: omit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Swanberg's Citizen Hearst for the $500 biography award, Columbia's trustees vetoed the book-and sales spurted. Last week, after a two-man screening jury recommended Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for the drama award, the Advisory Board decided to omit the prize. But with a New York Drama Critics Award and five Tonys (Broadway's Oscars) already on its mantel, Virginia probably got a bigger box-office boost by losing than by joining the 16 prizewinners. Bed & Booze. The jurors, though, were loudly upset. "Farce," cried Critic John Mason...
...elders find more interesting subjects in this multiuniversity than us, they still have an opportunity to improve matters without much effort. following Mr. Brumm's hint I would suggest a rewriting of the fascinating pamphlet, Information About Harvard College for Prospective Students. One could omit the sections dealing with a Liberal Education in a University College; strike out such passages as, "This is individual and therefore expensive instruction. It cost is justified by the special educational values which accrue from it in a college which is strongly opposed to mass-production methods of education" (p. 24). One might more fully...
...eastern Frankish empire. Though Sigfroi's wife soon vanished-she turned out to be a water nymph-and his fortress crumbled, the fief he founded proved as durable as it is diminutive. It is formally known today as the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and, though international surveys often omit its statistics entirely, it is a thriving charter member of the European Coal and Steel Community and the Common Market, as well as the smallest country in the United Nations, in whose behalf it sent an armed and eager platoon to Korea...
...78th annual dinner, Club President William Beale, Associated Press bureau chief, got the affair going by nodding toward the Supreme Court's Earl Warren, one of 500 guests, and announcing archly: "In deference to the presence here tonight of the Chief Justice of the United States, we shall omit the customary invocation...
...Angeles, and it seems hardly fair to complain that Nin's El pano murciano is not an especially interesting song when she is warbling her way through it. The encores included the inevitable Clavelitos, but some members of the audience were clearly disappointed that de los Angeles chose to omit Adios Granada, a flamenco which she sings to her own guitar accompaniment. They need not have been; it is not every exam period after all, that brings with it a concert by the soprano with the world's loveliest voice...