Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Haldeman portrays himself as continually giving "active encouragement" to the "good" side of Nixon and treating the "bad" side with "benign neglect." As chief of staff, Haldeman says, he often ignored "petty, vindictive" orders from Nixon (such as one to give mass lie detector tests to employees of the State Department as a means of finding security leaks). Haldeman now regrets that he did not challenge Nixon more "frontally" to check his dark impulses. But he also notes wryly that other Nixon associates who had done so, including HEW Secretary Robert Finch and Communications Director Herbert Klein, quickly lost influence...
...revolutionaries of that epoch now resemble entries on some tarnished armed services memorial: Edward Dahlberg, Benjamin Appel, Richard Wright, James T. Farrell. Of them all, only Farrell is still doing business at the same old stand. His ear for dialogue remains metallic (" 'And now, to no self-neglect,' he said, raising his glass and drinking"). His plots are, as always, mere runways for their adrenal characters. Yet, nearing 74, Farrell shows no signs of flagging energy, and he has lost none of his familiarity with the details of grief. His working people seem to have jobs, not roles...
...style is simply too many provincial and potentially too offending to too many voters for him to fare well outside the industrial Northeast. Moreover, his belligerence against the Soviets and Third World countries during his stint as United States U.N. ambassador under Gerald Ford and his recommendation of "benign neglect" toward blacks while serving as a White House adviser to Richard Nixon, make him the antithesis of what many liberals would seek as a suitable alternative to Jimmy Carter and/or Jerry Brown...
Songs such as "New Feeling" and "The Book I Read" come from the point of view of a self-absorbed person cautiously venturing out of his isolation. In Byrne's world everyone is too busy to spend time with others--unless you "neglect your duties." "I'll be in trouble" he delcares, but he doesn't care." "I been to college, I been to school," he says, and he's "the smartest man around." But when this self-confident posturer comes in contact with love he has to ask, "Where is my common sense/How...
Having spent two years of my life in Micronesia, I can personally attest to the neglect the people have received under the hand of the American colonialists. Of the eleven trusteeships established after World War II, Micronesia's future status is the last one to be resolved. Perhaps the U.S. will finally receive the two rewards that it has struggled so hard to attain in Micronesia-embarrassment and shame...