Word: overlook
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Because we celebrate Jefferson for his sonorous words in the Declaration of Independence--Hamilton never matched Jefferson's gift for writing ringing passages that were at once poetic and inspirational--we sometimes overlook Jefferson's consummate skills as a practicing politician. A master of subtle, artful indirection, he was able to marshal his forces without divulging his generalship. After Hamilton persuaded President Washington to create the Bank of the United States, the country's first central bank, Jefferson was aghast at what he construed as a breach of the Constitution and a perilous expansion of federal power. Along with Madison...
...wasn't a pretty sight. Tousled and bloated, he was drunk much of the time, playing the buffoon and getting into fights at bars and parties, making crude passes at women and cadging money and favors that he rarely repaid. As Andrew Lycett recounts in Dylan Thomas (Overlook Press; 421 pages), he spawned bad debts, pilfered from and vandalized homes he stayed in, and insulted and embarrassed the people who tried the most to help him. It wouldn't be long before he died of alcohol poisoning in New York City...
...have ever watched a field hockey game at Jordan Field—for four years the stomping grounds of tri-captain back Jen Ahn—you’d realize just how hard it is to overlook...
...regular Allston community task force meeting last night, neighbors responded with little fanfare to Harvard’s ecstatic announcements, repeating long-held reservations that the University’s vision might overlook their worries about affordable housing and congestion...
...because so many belittle the seriousness of this prejudice that it persists, and that escalation, even to murders like those above, is a short step away. Too many have to question whether or not to find nakedly race-based defamation offensive. Too few are chagrined to see their peers overlook stereotypes so untenable and unconscionable. As long as the public continues to turn a blind eye to the imposition of inferior status on their countrymen, the collective goal of Asian Americans—to be respected as Americans, as citizens and as people—will not be achievable. Should...