Word: neglectful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regime establish their power positions and fight off attacks and incursions by others. The backbiting is likely to be bitterest as the body politic nears the point of exhaustion. In Spain, which is facing a major economic crisis as a result of 20 years of political mismanagement and economic neglect, Cabinet meetings during the past six months have been getting rougher and tougher; Monarchists boldly attacked the Falange Party, the Falangists demanded complete control of the state apparatus, and church representatives quietly plugged Christian Democracy. Two weeks ago Generalissimo Franco called in his 16-man Cabinet. "Gentlemen," said...
...dilution in Handel's Water Music," Author-Critic Jacques Barzun wrote recently, in describing the amazing musical saturation of the U.S. atmosphere. This week Piano Virtuoso Artur Rubinstein (see PEOPLE) enthusiastically echoes Barzun's point that "in spite of our perennial croaking about America's neglect of the arts, the country spends more money for music than the entire rest of the world." Since the hi-fi revolution, a growing slice of that money has been spent on records, which have created a magnificent "concert hall without walls" not only for the classics but for the moderns...
...Many older patients neglect their diets, but where such deficiency used to be treated by suddenly feeding them a rich diet-which often upset their metabolism -doctors have now learned to enrich the diet gradually, add vitamins liberally...
...college that wishes to help its students enjoy the "Age of Leisure," to say nothing of success in business or politics, should not neglect physical education in skills of lasting value: golf, tennis, fly-casting, squash, etc. The advantages of such a program are recreational, social and eventually material...
...Conrad legend. The legend is well known? the young Polish exile who began to learn English from Lowestoft sailors at 21, became a ship's master at 29, voyaged to the Caribbean and the China Seas, and who, at 36, took to the shore and, despite poverty, neglect and illness, made himself a master novelist. It is all true. Jean- Aubry, who spent 20 years writing this book, fills in the blank spaces in the legend and makes the incredible seem necessary and inevitable. Although stiffly translated from the French, the book succeeds in spelling out the alphabet...