Word: neglect
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Schulberg, whose standard fee for a script is $100,000 and up, takes no money for his teaching chore, for which he volunteered after driving around Watts one night in the wake of the troubles. Shocked by the evidence of repression and neglect, the following week he asked the Westminster Neighborhood Association, which runs a number of adult education programs in Watts, if he could help. He was told that there were plenty of people hanging around the settlement house with nothing to do; maybe some of them could write...
...knew how to manifest the inward emotions of his mythical people in outward physical postures. While Narcissus, for example, gazes in the rapturous vanity of youth at his own reflection in a pool, his forgotten lover Echo, is depicted in ashen tones and fuzzy contours, as if evaporating from neglect...
...years, along the course of a newspaper career that carried him to the copy desk of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Robert Manry nourished a secret dream. In 1958 he paid $160 for a sailing hull rotted by age and neglect. Repaired, refitted and baptized on fresh-water shakedown cruises, Tinkerbelle slipped her moorings at Falmouth, Mass., on June 1, 1965. Seventy-eight days and 3,200 miles later, the 13½-ft. sloop touched shore in Falmouth, England, the smallest sailing craft ever known to have crossed the Atlantic...
...suggestion that the white man had done little to help Africa. "Among other things," the paper pointed out, "the British brought peace and justice. They ended the slave trade and tribal wars. They saved the lives of millions who would otherwise have died as a result of famine, neglect or battle...
...vendors. That absurdity is also forcing Mayor John Lindsay of New York City-whose $4.6 billion budget is larger than any state's-to go hat in hand to Albany to beg for the new taxes that he believes the city needs. No wonder that, after years of neglect by rural-dominated state legislatures, city after city has learned to bypass the state capital and go directly to Washington for help...