Word: overlooking
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...specific programs have been decided upon yet, but the Elizabethan expert indicated that he would not overlook the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth in the spring...
Last year's participants consider the program remarkably flexible and exciting. They point out that many student, even those who travel, overlook the advantages of a detailed and disciplined study in a specific area. It is a further credit to the program that the students are quite well liked in San Cristobal. Coming to learn, they have developed a capacity for give-and-take that Americans rarely achieve when they come to teach or proselytize...
...trivial and inconsequential, like a parlor game in which people amuse themselves by swapping anecdotes about what they were doing when they got the news of Pearl Harbor. But the reader, seduced by the perfectly tailored prose and the quiet delight of well-mannered comedy, may be led to overlook the muscular structure of Powell's art. Nick Jenkins is no Prince Hamlet, but as an attendant lord he misses nothing; his eyebrows are often raised, never his voice. Human action, Powell seems to be saying, is of primary importance in itself but secondary to the movements of history...
...exploit the President and his family for circulation purposes is serious enough. But even more dangerous implications arise: the danger of the imbalance of the news. Every inclusion means a corresponding exclusion. And, even when significant news is reported, as prisoners of the cult we may be tempted to overlook it. Readers often prefer to be amused rather than informed. Who doesn't gravitate toward the human-interest story, perhaps to the neglect of the duller but more significant news? . . . The effect is the displacement, or downgrading, of significant events...
...until I am an old grad--ready to overlook such points--I will resent the very slipshod way in which this year's volume has been put together. Much of the copy reads like a bad first draft, and the dummying is totally unimaginative. I am told that part of the trouble is that some of the copy really is first draft, and that many of the pages were in fact dummied in one night. The yearbook staff has had its troubles this term, God knows, but they really must pull themselves together...