Word: neglect
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...trouble is that most of what needs to get done in the U.S. is pretty boring stuff-things like modernizing taxes, zoning, building codes and local governments. Yet neglect of such matters is what promotes the wrong kind of change. Most of the historians' turning-point years involve wars and revolutions, not peaceful change. Clearly, 1968 is already a year for the history books; if it becomes a really major entry, the reason will be that Americans failed to solve too many of the minor problems that eventually cause major explosions. In that sense, today's blaring headlines...
...cultural bolshevism" and his activities were severely restricted. He withdrew more and more completely into mystical seclusion, poring over volumes of poetry and developing a passionate interest in that plant life around his suburban Vienna home. His calm perseverance as a composer in the face of ridicule and neglect gave him a saintly aura. To see him touch a single note on the piano, said Swiss Conductor Ernest Ansermet, was to see a man in an act of devotion...
...nation that has historically concerned itself with enlarging the electorate, the U.S. has always treated one large group of citizens with curious neglect. Over the years, five major groups have been added to the voting ranks: the landless (under the Constitution), Negroes (1870), women (1920), Washingtonians (1961) and refugees from the poll tax (1964). Yet America, a nation obsessed with youth, with nearly half its population under 25, does not let a citizen vote until he is 21.* An 18-year-old can be drafted, and he can be held fully responsible before the law, can even be given...
...guilty either of grave oversight or willful neglect in regard to Richard Nixon," read the stern letter to the editor of the New York Times. Its author, David Eisenhower II, 20, Ike's grandson, was in the thick of his new job as chairman of the Youth for Nixon organization. David and Julie Nixon, 19, are so optimistic about her dad's chances that they may move up the date of their marriage, originally planned for after their college graduations in 1970, to "sometime after the election." That could make it a White House wedding...
...never was a birth announcement. The book is a catchy packaging job of the familiar semi-exaggerations about how the super-rich and super-famous flit mindlessly from pleasure to pleasure in ever-tightening circles that lead to self-destruction. With pagan innocence, Melinda herself commits incest, adultery, child neglect, international outrage and multiple murder. Because she is not a character, but the author's representation of nascent id, Melinda cannot suffer hell and damnation. She must be ticketed to limbo on a Russian moon rocket that gets irretrievably rutted in orbit around the earth. There she joins...