Word: overlooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What ABC and its affiliates seem to overlook is that not only Cavett and Nielsen but the whole ratings system is once again on trial. Cavett's literate charm could probably never match the broad appeal of Carson's accomplished vaudeville or woo away the diehard movie buffs. But should he have to? If he cannot, should the more than 3,200,-000 viewers who want his brand of intelligent alternative programming be summarily disfranchised...
Preoccupied with their schools, educators too often overlook the fact that children learn more outside the classroom than in. Holt urges that the imbalance be redressed by ending compulsory schooling; he suggests, among other things, employing adult guides to teach children to read, and community learning centers open to both young and old. He concludes: "The deschooled society, a society in which learning is not separated from but joined to the rest of life, is not a luxury for which we can wait for hundreds of years, but something toward which we must move and work as quickly as possible...
Having recently studied these women's lives and contributions, I was not started by their portrayals in the dictionary. I could enjoy Warner Berthoff's warm appraisal of Margaret Fuller and Richard Drinnon's spirited account of Emma Goldman without feeling the need to overlook these heroine's blunders or separate their work from their lives. For those of us who have already begun independently to study women's history, the dictionary should reinforce our dedication. For others it should provide a sound base for that scholarship...
Other countries, such as Japan and France, do not consider evasion a serious crime, but merely fine wayward taxpayers. In France, moreover, longtime evaders benefit from a statute of limitations; the authorities overlook all but the past four years. One woman who was recently apprehended after 27 years of nonpayment was not assessed for the first 23 years...
...China Policy is that as long as the "irrational" Mao governs the Mainland, there can be no serious talks with his government. Peking feels the same way about the capitalist ruling class in America (whose nature, they say, can never change). But what the State Department China Policy makers overlook is that the most important factor in negotiation is the readiness of both sides to get down to business, and this readiness depends more on the political and security situation of the negotiating countries at a particular time than on who governs either country. For some reason, perhaps the tension...