Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first is used (and abused) by everyone. The last has become the property of infants, absurdists and politicians. And the one in the middle? Strung between the poles of the superrational and the occult, it suffers from disuse and neglect. The nation suffers along with...
...made it increasingly difficult to believe that the President could have remained totally unaware of the cover-up attempts. They were so pervasive, involving the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department, that if he did not know about them, he was guilty of neglect bordering on incompetence-an accusation few have ever leveled at the superbly organized Chief Executive...
...been so preoccupied with such larger matters as the war in Viet Nam and détente with the Soviet Union and China that it has virtually ignored its neighbors to the south. To many Latin Americans, Washington's policy has seemed more like "malign neglect" than benign neglect; a low profile by the U.S. south of the border meant a low priority for Latin America north...
...society has been woeful in its neglect of the physical, visual environment," Fleming said. "It's appalling that our eyes have become so calloused...
...film made of these scenes would be one-sided, and this film is not. The gentleness of the store contrasts with Benoit's harsh winter ride with Antoine on an undertaking job far from the town. Antoine's jovial drinking in his store contrasts with his reprehensible neglect of his duties at the end. My Uncle Antoine is one of the most accessible of complex works, full of captivating imagery, often most expressive when the dialogue is most scarce, maintaining a slight air of frivolity at all but the blackest moments--and containing a depth and energy as welcome...