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Equally important, however, is the academic personality. Scholars are practically the only Americans who evaluate people in terms of what they have done, not what they are. More than any other profession scholars overlook birth, breeding and personal idiosyncracies--if the individual delivers the goods. And more than most other groups the scholars still supports the puritanical view that work is valuable for its own sake, regarding such evidences of time consumed as footnotes and bibliographies as significant virtues...
...overlook the Rev. Martin Luther King of Montgomery, Ala. Think about...
Doty attacked the "popular notion" that the Russian challenge exists only in science and material progress. "While watching our comparative production curves," he noted, "we tend to overlook certain problems in education, for instance." A million Russians speak English, he said, and a "dynamic concern for learning English penetrates much of the society...
...they often let pass without comment the idle jokes and comments on Southern life. They overlook the professor's aspersion on Faubus and the preacher's praise of Martin Luther King...
...propaganda purposes, the rulers of the Communist world chose to overlook the reality of this standoff. Each time units of the Seventh Fleet ventured within Red China's self-proclaimed twelve-mile limit (TIME, Sept. 15), Peking issued a "serious warning." (By week's end Red China's Foreign Ministry was up to "the fifth serious warning.") In a wave of synthetic fury unmatched since Korean war days, millions of Chinese-205 million by Peking's count-docilely turned out to demonstrate against "U.S. armed provocations." Describing U.S. military bases abroad as "a noose around...