Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME'S review (Nov. 20) of CBS' The Pursuit of Happiness, you told only half the story of Ballad for Americans which Paul Robeson sang so magnificently. The ballad, evidently through some oversight, was credited to me as creator. Actually, while I wrote the music, the entire text including the beautiful selections you reprinted, was the work of the young poet, John Latouche...
...Pitts, on the other hand, who claimed a desire to participate in the protest, and whose attempt to disrupt the meeting also called forth Thursday's letter, the John Reed Society apparently did not see fit to invite him to speak. Whether this was an oversight or an intentional omission I myself cannot say. Even if it was the latter, their action is certainly understandable. Liberals and progressives have long known form bitter experience the destructive activities of those who call themselves Trotskyites. These activities have been felt by liberal organizations everywhere. Had he been seriously interested in the purpose...
...graduation is not a time to reflect on one's relation to Harvard with the warm feeling pecular to romanticists ; it is an instant of gaiety at a crossroads of life, a careless laugh at the occasion, and a happy oversight of its significance. Graduation, like tragedy, has its comic element, and its participants accept it undramatically in the way that people experience all great events. Graduation is as simple as the black of the seniors' gowns and the white which their families and friends wear in celebration...
...acres into a Yorkshire moor. He imported eight British actors, a dialect expert to see that their accents matched, 1,000 panes of hand-blown glass for interior shots and 1,000 heather plants for outdoors. He did not attempt to send for Emily Bronte. In spite of this oversight, there is not much she could have done to improve this screen translation of her masterpiece...
James Lanigan '39 head of the practical politics committee of the Student Union, yesterday denied all charges made by the Boston officials and condemned them with oversight and hasty judgement. "We definitely do not espouse any Communistic philosophies," he insisted...