Word: omit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small writing? Big things--violence, love, sex, alienation. Little things--fawns, pine trees, letters that arrive in the mail. The latter are the province of those who read Elements of Style, the former the stuff of most who ignore it. How can you talk baout nuclear war and omit needless words...
...never endorsed any political line, and although his '40s antiFascism is a matter of record, Canetti is neither a NATO hardliner nor an Iron Curtain apologist: his Nobel cannot be totted on either Scoreboard in the East-West propa ganda Olympics. Canetti embodies a more important quality often omit ted in the literature committee's global approach. He is a major writ er, gifted with a unique talent and an original, if sometimes grisly humanism...
ITHACA. N.Y.--Mobil Corporation has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for permission to omit a Cornell Corporate Responsibility Froject (CCRP) shareholder resolution from its annual meeting statement...
Once again, Sadat came out forcefully against the inclusion of Jordan in any resumption of Palestinian autonomy talks. And though the Venice declaration called for the "association" of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Middle East negotiations, Sadat pointedly omit ted any mention of the P.L.O., a possible signal to the Europeans not to insist on P.L.O. involvement, at least not until a later stage...
...historical Margaret died in France even before Richard because king. But Shakespeare brought her into the play with the fourth-largest role. Directors often omit Margaret entirely, as Olivier did in his overpraised film version; but she adds much, in her two substantial scenes, functioning as a sort of combined Cassandra and avenging Fury. Since Margaret is a half-supernatural character, it made sense to cast her here with a foreign-born actress. Viveca Lindfors looks wonderful with her disheveled hair, but the vestiges of a Swedish accent along with a tendency to swallow words make much of her cursing...