Word: omit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Perrin's survey makes alarmingly evident is that bowdlerizing could become almost as unbridled a lust as lust itself. An expurgator may begin quietly enough by "lopping" or "cutting." He might omit, say, Sodom and Gomorrah from Old Testament stories. But before he is through, he is likely to end up as a compulsive cleaner-"the sort of man who is capable of bringing out an expurgated edition of Wordsworth," as a Victorian clergyman with a penchant for editing was once described...
Later, after his motion for the special Faculty meeting passed, Mendelsohn said he would offer a resolution for "endorsement of a sort" of the moratorium by the Faculty. He said he hoped it would be more than a technical motion allowing students and Faculty to omit classes without penalty, and rather "one which goes to the heart of the matter and addresses the legitimacy of the actions being taken on that...
...does omit one American target, however. At one point, Karina sets the theme of the movie by telling the tale of the man who had a brush with death and fled, only to meet it in his flight. Throughout the film, Godard leaves a trail of authors' names: Robert Louis Stevenson, William Faulkner, Jack London, Raymond Chandler. One name he fails to drop is that of the man who made the legend famous by basing a whole novel on it. He is John O'Hara, and his book was Appointment in Samarra...
...that the report must be the first in U.S. Government history to print "the actual obscenities used by the participants-demonstrators and police alike." The Walker study explains that the "extremely obscene language was a contributing factor to the violence" and "its frequency and intensity were such that to omit it would inevitably understate the effect it had." Since the report is otherwise couched largely in the turgid prose common to bureaucracy, the insertion of so many pungent Anglo-Saxon expletives relating to or synonymous with copulation creates a surrealistic effect...
...used their veto at Brussels to reject a preferential-tariff proposal that would have opened the way for Britain's eventual inclusion in the Common Market. As a result, the West Germans were now thinking about organizing a Common Market that would include Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia but omit France, if necessary. Some Germans were also contemplating the creation of a unified European defense force, another idea that French intransigence blocked back in 1954. Inadvertently, the Soviets were rendering Western Europe an important and perhaps historic service by turning attention once more to the need for some sort...