Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gogh's paintings have made the squares, houses and bridges of Saint-Remy and Aries among the best-known scenes of France. But neither town as yet has raised a monument to the artist who made them famous. This oversight is now being corrected by Los Angeles Sculptor William Earl Singer, 57, who has cast a large head of Van Gogh, designed to reflect varying emotions as the sun passes over it, and has offered the sculpture as a gift, to be set up in a public place in Aries...
This is not a matter of oversight, but of conviction and it has never been more manifest than in recent months when, in response to what is generally known as the urban crisis, some of the best and most generous minds in public life have responded with proposals to build more factories in the slums, and the respected and revered Episcopal bishop of New York announces that as a gesture towards the poor, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine will not be finished in our time. This is appalling. Three summers of rioting and out goes fifty years...
...recent article, you examined the "car-of-the-month" In cars owned by Hollywood's show business elite [Sept. 29]. Due, I'm sure, to an oversight, one of the most In automobiles, the London...
...Since the courts have already ruled unconstitutional the districts in many states and since the "compromise" bill would in most cases prevent the creation of new districts until after 1970, the only remaining possibility would be at large elections--something which any constituency-cartering representative would despite. This oversight will allow the conferees to shape a new plan, and since some standards for 1968 and 1970 must be set if elections at large are to be avoided, Congress has another chance to shape a fair-districting law and restore the Senate's anti-gerrymandering provision...
...Paeans. Despite what Schirra called the new "cando" atmosphere in the space program, the reverberations of the Jan. 27 tragedy are still being felt. Appearing before the House NASA Oversight Subcommittee and the Senate Space Committee last week, Webb got none of the accustomed paeans; instead, he was nettled at being forced into an embarrassing admission and roundly castigated by several legislators...