Word: neglectful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members are inclined to suspect any attempt to be popular as evidence of bad taste. Last week Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard A. ("Rab") Butler remembered good politics as he rose, white-faced and grim, to defend himself against a Labor censure motion condemning him for "incompetence and neglect." The week before, Butler had been scourged by Labor's ambitious Hugh Gaitskell, a former Chancellor himself, who demanded that Butler resign (TIME, Nov. 7). Now Butler set out to defend his emergency tax-raising budget to combat British inflation. He not only admitted that his tax increases would...
...Parliament, the angry Socialists rose to the attack. Butler's crisis budget had accomplished what Attlee and his squabbling lieutenants could not do themselves: it united the opposition and gave them a flaming issue. A Laborites' censure motion roundly accused the government of "incompetence and neglect." The man chosen to lead the attack was But ler's opposite number: former Chancellor Hugh Gaitskell, 49, a brilliant Oxford don whose economic philosophy is so similar to Butler's own that Britons lump them together in a single word: Butskellism. Cold, handsome Hugh Gaitskell is tipped by insiders...
Lawrence is one of some 15 alumni who have written to the "Alumni Bulletin" in recent months protesting the "downright shabby, shoddy, and shameful" state of Memorial Hall at the present time. "Fashions in architecture come and go," wrote Gordon Allen '98 in one of these letters, "but neglect of historic buildings, and this is one, is not to be condoned in a great university...
...With World War II just around the corner, Dickie Savage has in fact grown up and become a bit blasé. Heritage does not say that creative people are exempt from the rules of ordinary decency. But Author West tries to understand them and suggests that even illegitimacy and neglect are not too much to endure for the rare privilege of growing up with genius...
...court reports of crimes, engulfing such thoughtful, first-rate weekly newspapers as the Sunday Times or Observer, which together have a circulation of only slightly over a million. Observed New York Herald Tribune Columnist Roscoe Drummond, visiting in London last week: "We Americans often think the British press neglects America . . . Most British mass circulation newspapers neglect what is important about Britain [in] a sensational, restless hodgepodge of trash and trivia...