Word: neglect
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reasons are several. As drama Falstaff is sketchy, gentle, lacking in emotional intensity. As music, Falstaff is a tapestry of lacy subtleties, so fragile that only the finest opera companies can perform it without tearing it to tatters. But perhaps the most important reason for Falstaff's neglect is the scarcity of baritones who can make its central figure a living character instead of an overstuffed clown...
...involve military security. Some news facts have been suppressed to protect military reputations; more have been withheld or slanted to "protect" U.S. morale. Still others have been withheld because of President Roosevelt's growing love of secrecy. The public at large ascribed press protests at the neglect and exclusion of reporters at Cairo and Teheran to self-interested bellyaching. But Elmer Davis does not work for the U.S. press; he works for the U.S. people. There was room for six Filipino cooks in the President's Cairo-Teheran party, but no room for Mr. Davis...
...price for one bad piece of rail last week was 72 lives (see p. 20). Next year on the railroads, the highways, and in the air, the price of neglect may be higher. In a fact-packed report on transportation the Truman Committee last week bluntly warned WPB and the Services that no further miracles could be expected from the overworked, undersupplied carriers. Only a generous quantity of new equipment and replacement parts can prevent a critical transportation breakdown...
Warned Niebuhr: "The American soldier . . . lacks help in finding the spiritual and moral significance of the titanic struggle in which he is engaged. We may one day rue this neglect...
...will have a tendency to neglect drinking sufficient water on the theory that perhaps you are absorbing enough of the damn stuff through the pores of your skin. This theory is not borne out by the best scientific thought...