Word: overlook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than it does apparently to them. Their plan assumes, as they admit, the existence of a body of courses which are not in the catalogue at present. Yet they say that the plan can be put into operation "without sweeping immediate changes or expansion of offerings." What they overlook is the present nature of upper-level General Education courses: a hodge-podge of brilliant courses, that provide general education by any definition, and very narrow all-but-departmental courses. Someone is going to have to go over the roster of these courses carefully and decide whether the "History...
Among those who disagreed strongly with Lichtheim's appraisal was Morton H. Halperin, assistant professor of Government. The Times, Halperin explained, "shares the weakness of American newspapers in general in interpreting the domestic policies of other countries." But Lichtheim, he said, "shares a European tendency to overlook the degree to which facts are important," and "for the facts, the Times can't be beat...
...inquest into the U.S. defeat tended to overlook perhaps the most significant fact. The Russians have simply gotten better in recent years. They improved measurably in the sprints and pole vault, and regained their superiority in the distances. And, as usual, their women beat the less-experienced U.S. women. Brutus Hamilton was only the first U.S. coach to lose a meet to the Russians...
What the controversy over crime and punishment tends to overlook is that the Bill of Rights must protect everyone-the unsavory as well as the savory-or it protects no one. The goal of judicial reform should be a system that genuinely safeguards the rights of the accused wrongdoer, yet effectively upholds the innocent citizen's right to be protected from the criminal. If it can achieve both these objectives, the revolution in criminal justice will have been well fought...
...that The Waiter is an "easy" play. does not bury his audience kling little nuggets of like Beckett's "Ah, earth, extinguisher!", and it is overlook or ignore much Dumb Waiter's depth. Loeb production I overall gentleman explain to his "The Dumb Waiter two hired killers who get from upstairs; Happy about boredom and the of life...