Word: neglected
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Most curious is the neglect of opportunities which, one would think, must have made Dorian seem a tempting movie to make in the first place: the ways in which terror might have been inspired, and a story told, through letting an audience watch an animated oil painting change before its eyes. Even when murder is committed in the same room with the picture, you are not allowed to see red paint sweating forth on the fingers; the camera waits till the crime is complete, then comes back and finds it there. Reverence for literature often goes hand in hand with...
...Serfdom, Hans Kohn's timely historical study, Idea of Nationalism, and Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal's profound analysis of the U.S. Negro problem, An American Dilemma, won high critical praise but comparatively few readers. And much of the year's most intelligent poetry suffered the usual neglect: W. H. Auden's For the Time Being, E. E. Cummings' I X I, Robert Fitzgerald's A Wreath for the Sea, Marianne Moore's Nevertheless. But 1944 also witnessed the emergence of a new popular poet of high quality. Russell Davenport's My Country...
...Margaret Axson Elliott, wife of Princeton's onetime Dean Edward C. Elliott, the sister of the first Mrs. Wilson has recorded her memories of these guardians who taught her the value of principles, courage and tolerance. Readers of My Aunt Louisa and Woodrow Wilson are likely to neglect worthy Aunt Louisa, for the interest and value of Author Elliott's unprofessional book are mainly in its homely details of the home life of a future great U.S. President...
Following an investigation in nearly all the major aircraft plants of Southern California, the report features contributions by Professors Elton Mayo, George F. F. Lombard, John B. Fox, and Jerome F. Scott. While the men concede that the financial loss in labor turnover and absenteeism resulting from neglect of worker morale can be over-looked by firms enjoying wartime prosperity, they assert that the defect may prove fatal to many companies in the highly competitive period expected after hostilities cease...
Divorced. Powel Crosley Jr., 58, manufacturer of Crosley radios, iceboxes and midget automobiles, president of the Cincinnati Reds; by Marianna Wallingford Crosley, 32; after one year, 9 months of marriage; in Cincinnati. Grounds: gross neglect...