Word: overlook
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Funny that a textual scholar of national standing and a leading authority on Dickinson should both overlook problems as fundamental as an inaccurate understanding of the poet and mistaken "word choice" on my part...
Neither the Cupid nor the elegy is intrinsically different now, in the full glare of worldwide publicity, than a few weeks ago, when both enjoyed obscurity. The only thing that has changed is the attitude we are expected to bring to these objects. What we could safely ignore or overlook before now commands our reverent attention because the names Michelangelo and Shakespeare have been attached to them...
...opposite number of their opponents'. But his chief accomplishment thus far is the destruction of the status quo. That may be the limit of his historic role. Every movement of ideas must have a human face, a person in whose integrity and wisdom people can believe sufficiently to overlook the risks and the inconsistencies contained in the new ideology...
...unrealistic to assume that worthwhile negotiation can continue with such contradictions unmentioned and unaccounted for. The claim that we must overlook Arafat's less than peaceful rhetoric so as not to "delegitimize" him endangers the construction of true peace. Such attitudes threaten the formation of the comprehensive Middle East peace that has been Israel's dream for so long. --Miriam Goldstein...
...performance is strong enough to make you overlook the play's shortcomings. Master Class has a less gratifying shape than what may be McNally's best play, also Callas inspired, The Lisbon Traviata (it's also less well constructed than last year's uneven Love! Valour! Compassion!, which nevertheless won a Tony last year for best play). There's no organic reason for Master Class to run the two acts it does; the second act doesn't deepen--it merely extends. And McNally's attempt to drive it toward an old-fashioned theatrical climax (one of the students ultimately mutinies...