Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public and private buildings in Brittany over a twelvemonth period that ended last April. With the charges virtually undisputed, the prosecution did not bother to call a single witness. But the defendants used their days in court to speak out eloquently and emotionally on the economic exploitation and political neglect of their region...
...corollary to this pop law of the sixties is another, which the left has been slow to learn both in our time and in times past. When deceit and social neglect become cushrined as principles of government, they do not breed revolt. A decaying social order is not the fertile breeding ground of social change. It is a barrea wasteland in which visible movement disappears. This wasteland is the home ground of Nixonian politics Nixonian politics must be defeated if not this time then soon
...Neglect. Not much has really changed in the two men since they both went off to war. They learned their arts, studied their legislative and political crafts. But Nixon sees the world as an arena of individual initiative, where each man is expected to do all he can within his abilities. His nation, he still insists, is a place of almost limitless opportunity where hard work and brains can bring a man wealth or power, which translate very easily with Nixon into happiness. George McGovern still sees the world as a place of natural cruelties, where strong men are supposed...
...world of the presidency, Nixon believes that the people can pretty much run themselves if left alone. A spirit of laissez-faire?to the point of "benign neglect"?suffuses his thinking. Thus a major purpose of Washington is to guard against too much governmental encroachment. It is ironic that under Nixon, the Government has imposed economic controls and grown bigger than ever. But he believes that he has stirred more initiative in the courthouses and state capitols...
...Governor Rockefeller should have gone to Attica. The gesture might or might not have made a difference, the commission said, but "where state neglect was a major contributing factor to the uprising," the report said, "the Governor should not have committed the state's armed forces without first appearing on the scene and satisfying himself that there was no other alternative...