Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigations have assumed a more serious aspect. The first tales about Welfare Island Prison were not surprising and in part were almost amusing, but now that Paul Blanshard has focused his attention upon the City Home for the Aged, the daily investigation reports are weighted with testimony of criminal neglect, cruelty, robbery, and assault...
...amusing incidents. Within the environs of Cambridge, Charles Apted and his cohorts have carried on a courageous but fruitless search which has carried them into the furthest reaches of the University, and sent them scurrying in all directions at the slightest rumor. It was expected that the Colonel would neglect his dog hunt on Tuesday in favor of the Eliot Centenary Exercises, but when the crowd gathered in the court of Eliot House for the unveiling of the new bust of President Eliot the noted sleuth was not to be seen. Everything was very dignified and nobody in the solemn...
...path of Christian pessimism is steered with just as sure a success. Dr. Niebuhr maintains that its pessimism is one pregnant with political change, as the pessimism of Buddha is not, and he does not neglect to show the role which this pessimism should play in radical political theory. The old argument against collectivism, that it is a system which ignores human imperfection, is turned into the argument that collectivism is a system based on human imperfection. It is, says Dr. Niebuhr, the unreasoning impulse and brutality of human beings which makes collectivism the only safe economic solution...
...commence which will create a highly precarious situation for Herr Adolph. The only way of avoiding this situation is to divert the minds of the people by war; and since war forms a cardinal point in the foreign policy of Hitler, it may be assumed that he will not neglect to employ it as a means of relieving pressure at home. The Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, then, emerges as a potent cause for future war, and thus becomes a threatening and significant problem of far more than internal German interest...
...atmosphere of the past. But there is much more in which the failure to vitalize teaching by revealing its bearing on the problems of the present, robs it of the appeal which it would otherwise have for the average student. The motive which most often leads a teacher to neglect the contemporary implications of his teaching is not the desire to keep it free of exaggerated irrelevancies. It is the fear of being considered superficial and "popular." Or else it is the lack of ability to appreciate the vitality inherent in his subject, to say nothing of the ability...