Word: overlook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...afternoon of March 29 found Peter Seeger '40 guilty on ten counts for contempt of Congress. I cannot overlook the irony inherent in the conviction of Seeger for refusing to speak before the House Un-American Activities Committee. The most salient factor in the folk singer's character is his seeming inability to stop voicing his political and social opinions. Each Seeger concert is as much the singer's philosophical thesis as the folk songs themselves, and even the song "The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" is chacteristically prefaced by the performer, Carnegie Hall, December...
...ecumaniacs"-as Kennedy calls the extreme partisans of the ecumenical movement-overlook the fact that the bigger the church, the more ponderous the machinery. "It all sounds so spiritual and satisfying until a skeptic begins to think of all the administration involved. Then my feet get chilled. Let us face it: the only way an ecclesiastical institution the size of the Roman Catholic Church can function effectively is to be authoritarian. Is this our goal...
...knows her!" wrote Impressionist Camille Pissarro on the day in 1895 that he heard of the death of his good friend Berthe Morisot. Compared with the following of her great contemporaries, Berthe Morisot's public has always been modest but no history of the impressionist movement could now overlook her. The reason was clear last week at Manhattan's Wildenstem gallery, where 69 of her works hung in the largest Morisot exhibition ever held...
...quite some time now, liberals who supported Kennedy have been forced to overlook a series of disappointing maneuvers by sagaciously telling themselves that the young man from Massachusetts was making "the shrewd political moves...
...analysis of the cold war by Edwin L. Dale Jr. is a scholarly one, but it seems to overlook [Communism's] conscienceless will to use brute force in gaining what it seeks if everything else fails. The fact that "Europe is vigorous and thriving and fully with us" is hardly comforting in the light of Russia's ability to overrun it, in a matter of days, if she so chooses, at the same time delivering us a crippling blow to ward off any opposition. At any given moment, Russia has that physical and psychological edge...