Word: neglectful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Emphasizing the Library's importance, Buck indicated that the University cannot afford to neglect it. "The Library, it has been said, must not be allowed to bankrupt the University," he said in his report. "But," he continued, "the University must not bankrupt the Library...
This book, first published in 1938, is one of Vladimir Nabokov's prehumous works. Like The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and Invitation to a Beheading, it was buried under critical neglect and popular apathy when it appeared, is now gaining a second life through the continuing Lolita boom. But Laughter in the Dark only superficially resembles Lolita; it is closer to the Heinrich Mann novel that became The Blue Angel, the famed Marlene Dietrich film of the same general setting and period. At its loftiest, Nabokov's theme is the degradation, by lust, of dignity and intellect...
...Jersey. In 14 years in Congress, six of them in the Senate, spare, able Clifford P. Case, 56, has shown himself one of the most independent of Republican liberals. The scholarly son of a Dutch Reformed minister, Case is no gladhander, tends to neglect his political fences, and has repeatedly driven conservative New Jersey Republicans into open revolt by his egghead policies. Case's re-election reinforces his shaky position as his state's top Republican leader...
...Syracuse Post-Standard. He is Richard Hiller Amberg, now 48, a grey-haired, hip-shooting combination of businessman, newsman and club-joining civic promoter. On the Globe, Amberg cut production costs, tidied the makeup, concentrated on suburban and local coverage that the internationally minded P-D had begun to neglect, and launched a spate of civic campaigns for better hospitals, better airline service, better traffic safety, and better everything else that would make his newspaper sell better...
...spelling out Nixon and Lodge by name, the President then said that the nation needs "experienced and mature leadership"-not a leadership that "insists upon agitating small points to the neglect of the nation's true good." No one had any doubts about the leaders he had in mind. "How lucky we are," he had told a reception for Republican Party chiefs, "to have two such people as Dick Nixon and Cabot Lodge on our ticket in the presidential race...