Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dissolve. The laws that govern that dissolution in the U.S., however, are not only widely conflicting and confusing-all 50 states have their own laws -but are based on notions that are out of touch with the changing realities of modern society. Most of them tend to embitter spouses, neglect the welfare of the children, prevent reconciliation and produce a large measure of hypocrisy, double-dealing and perjury. Looking at the welter of divorce laws in the U.S., David R. Mace, executive director of the American Association of Marriage Counselors, can only call it "an absolutely ghastly, dreadful, deplorably messy...
...Neglect in New Jersey...
...rulings are the same as if it were passing on the wisdom of laws, even though it would like to pass only on their constitutionality. Conversely, the Court is subject to political checks. To talk of its imposing its will against the will of a determined public is to neglect the powers of amendment, limitation of jurisdiction, packing, and new appointments by a popularly elected president...
...felt that due to the extensive government funds now granted for research, doctors and professors tend to devote themselves to study and research. Consequently, they neglect the "human element" in medicine, Ebert noted...
Five Watchers. Such a man as Lowry has trouble in this world even when sober-which he was for long productive periods. His letters, collected by his widow and the New York Times's Harvey Breit, record enough of those troubles -neglect, poverty, manuscripts lost or burned-to make paranoiacs of 50 poets. Lowry first appears as "a small boy chased by furies." He strummed a guitar in dives, "ran away to sea," and the last thing he did to please his bewildered father, a Liverpool cotton broker who fox-hunted, was to graduate (third-class honors) in English...