Word: overlooked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lest other biographers should overlook them, MacArthur retells with zest the high points of his youthful heroics. On his first assignment in the Philippines, he reports that he was waylaid on a narrow jungle trail by a pair of desperadoes; he dropped them both with his pistol, while a slug tore through his campaign hat. When the Marines were occupying Vera Cruz in 1913, MacArthur went on an unauthorized reconnaissance aboard a railway handcar. Shooting his way out of a series of ambushes, he arrived back in Vera Cruz with four bullet holes in his shirt, but unscathed...
Hard News. Schechner has won such praise by putting into his magazine something most literary editors overlook-hard news. When Julian Beck and his wife Judith Malina, the founders of Manhattan's Living Theater, barricaded themselves in their theater to ward off eviction, he interviewed them through a megaphone. He keeps in touch with European theater on both sides of the Curtain. He prints a previously unpublished play in each issue; so far, each of the plays has been produced within a few months of its T.D.R. debut. Though Tulane University provides a New Orleans office and financial...
...good man is hard to find, and intolerable to men and gods once he is found. The age of the anti-hero tends to overlook this fascinating half-truth, which is the durable paradox at the core of Oedipus Rex and Othello. But Ken Kesey used it well in his short, cruelly focused first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. McMurphy, laughing con man and indestructible alley fighter, cons his way into an insane asylum to escape the drudgery of a prison farm. His battle is with Big Nurse, the white-starched emasculator who bulls his ward...
...President has learned that George C. Wallace can get votes in Wisconsin, even against a popular Democratic governor and such an astute politician as Johnson can hardly be expected to overlook the returns. But the President ought to remember in planning his own campaign that John Kennedy got votes a different way--and he got far more than Wallace...
Muir's windows overlook the sea. He was born near the soil in Hunter, N.D. (pop. 417), and studied in New York at the Art Students League in 1923-24, but now he is enthralled by the littoral life that he has led on the Maine sea-coast since 1939. For his art derives from the botany of the place-the abstract fluidity with which nature cloaks its creatures. In carving through the gnarls and knots of wood, Muir tempts nature to remake itself in another natural image born of a natural...