Word: neglect
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Hence he scattered through the Lectures perfunctory proposals that the government be made "accountable" to the people. No elaboration was given though on the central issue of how such accountability is to be achieved. This neglect is not mere carelessness on his part...
...whole host of governmental demons: inefficiency, featherbedding, lack of cooperation and coordination, an absence of planning and all-around administrative malaise. "The functioning of our state is chaotic," he said. "Argentina, a nation whose great destiny no one doubts because of its riches, lies in the shadows of neglect." The officials were shocked by the stern lecture...
Weighed down with the rust of neglect, Threskiornis aethiopica--"Ibis" to you--soared yesterday into the jetstream. Witnesses to the event, which occurred soon after dawn atop the Lampoon edifice, felt the legendary bird would probably head toward ski country, where it was hoped a weekend of relaxation might serve to arrest seemingly irreversible heart damage brought on by years of Lampoon care...
...Protestant thinkers is the undeniable evidence of religious experience-the intuition men have of their dependence upon God. The popularity of this insight, in turn, leads back to the study of Friedrich Schleiermacher, the theologian who first developed it as a basis of Christian faith. After a generation of neglect, Schleiermacher, who died in 1834, is now being reassessed as the most significant Protestant theologian since Luther and Calvin. Last week Vanderbilt University sponsored a four-day conference commemorating the bicentenary of Schleiermacher's birth...
...group's real virtuosity is collective rather than individual. Sorting like musical pack rats through a patchwork of influences, they piece together witty collages that throb with asymmetrical rhythms and fierce intensity, yet never neglect an unashamed capacity for lyricism. "We are playing jazz that represents our particular generation, time of life and background," says Burton. "The people who have been the major influences for the past five to ten years are now getting to be over 40. We're less traditional than they are, but we're not out to destroy traditions like some avant-garde...