Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scene, classic as it appears, might have been expected to compete at once with other classics like Bryce's American Commonwealth for a place in U.S. bookshelves and meditations. But it didn't. Since Harper's published it in 1907, it has shared in the long neglect and inaccessibility of James's work. It now appears-at perhaps the tail end of a two-year-old Henry James "revival"* with an introduction by an English writer of notable talent, Poet W. H. Auden, whose expatriation is the reverse of James...
This wrist-slap satisfied no one but the Army's brasshats, who were only too glad to see the whole unsavory mess over & done with. The prosecution privately argued that the sentence was ludicrously mild. The defense insisted that the court had actually found Defendant Kilian guilty of neglect of duty, a charge not filed against him. Said one sarcastic G.I. spectator: "We're going to take up a collection to pay the poor guy's fine...
...ordinary G.I.s had no protection from faulty technique. They suffered neglect, abuse and indignities in silence, because to complain meant having yet another psychiatric term added to an already lopsided medical chart...
...name Harvard too frequently. At best, this situation is endowments can cause a tremendously lopsided University, with faculty and student talent naturally funnelling off either into other colleges where their specialties are not given orphan-child treatment. At its worst, a hit-and-miss endowment policy can neglect faculty salaries (which, at certain levels, Harvard can scarcely neglect much longer) and other immediate needs until the wealthiest University in the world is forced to forsake its leadership in certain areas for lack of faculty and facilities...
Other Connolly faults are an occasional forcing of elegance, a weakness for the rare and classy word ("the barathrum of incompetence"), and a neglect which almost seems an aversion for U.S. literature. Connolly's insularity is profound and perhaps defensive. It is, however, an insularity of European rather than British dimensions. One of the curves that could be plotted through his writing culminates in his stated belief that the future cultural relationship between England and France should be "absolute union...