Word: overlooking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half? And ditto the rest of the operas in next season's repertory" . . . And when the season is over, "why not open the Opera House ... to operettas such as Porgy and Bess, Show Boat, Oklahoma! . . . There's [a] fundamental axiom of show business the Met . . . continues to overlook-a dark house doesn't make money...
This good little French film has a sentimentality that is too obvious to overlook. But Director Jacques Becker (It Happened at the Inn) has given it such virtues as a gently perceptive camera, unobtrusive realism, and, above all, genuine pathos...
Please don't overlook mentioning the culprit's name and biography, if & when he is uncovered...
...tongued Cultural Anthropologist Margaret Mead. By using the word "outlet" for sex activity, Kinsey upheld the Puritan tradition that the body should not be used for pleasure. Said Dr. Mead: he "confused sex with excretion." He missed completely the emotional, spiritual and ethical sides of sex, and seemed to overlook society's need for a sex pattern. Patterns, Dr. Mead said, are necessary, and are found in every society "apparently to reward men for staying home at night, which doesn't seem to be biologically necessary." There is a danger that people may regard Kinsey as a sort...
...time when international relations once again smack hellishly of war, and when the field of dynamic political leaders is so sparse, ought we to overlook any presidential candidate on the grounds of small, personal prejudice? Shouldn't we instead study the factual achievements of his case history? If MacArthur pats himself on the back, who knows, we may find he has a right to. It doesn't harm us much, and certainly a timid man won't get far with Russia. Forrest Powers...