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...does not approve. But on these bare bones Marquand has molded the flesh of Jeffrey Wilson's memories, turns them into vivid, detailed, often moving episodic stories. So skilfully does Marquand recapture the mood of middle-class U.S. life during the last 35 years that most readers will overlook the artificiality of the flashback technique...
...cannot fight to crush Nazi brutality abroad and condone race riots at home. . . . We cannot plead for equality of opportunity for peoples everywhere and overlook the denial of the right to vote for millions of our own people...
There are those who say that the costs will be unbearable. These critics overlook the fact that the benefit payments and to the flow of national income. These critics consider the outlays made as though they were deductions from the national income and therefore only a burden on the economy...
...measured and mapped. Then the sod is stripped away and the soil is carefully peeled off, layer by layer, usually with trowels. Old holes, long since filled up, get special attention. They may show where houses stood, help toward determining the plan of a community. Dr. Wissler says: "To overlook them when digging is inexcusable. With practice they are easily dissected out." Other old holes may be trash pits-mines of information...
Gone Far. This controversy was a rare occurrence in U.S. radio, whose impresarios can seldom summon sufficient nerve to question the taste of a rich sponsor's advertising. It was also too tempting a publicity opportunity for Dan Golenpaul to overlook. As is the case with many...