Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro extremism and the effect of permanent poverty, on the Negro's response to the compound problem of discrimination and unemployment. Two other omissions mar the book, the failure to adequately discuss the difference between the Puerto Rican's experience and that of earlier immigrant groups, and the neglect of the Catholic attitude toward birth control that limits the effectiveness of welfare programs...
Also the authors do not really succeed in their attempt to relate ethnicity to the rest of the city's life. Themes are left dangling like unhappy participles, and Glazer and Moynihan blithely neglect the large proportion of the city that belongs to no easily definable minority group. Much more importantly, they fail to outline the effect of a rising middle class on ethnic identities...
...least popular neglect seems to be coming to an end. The Wapshot Scandal (TIME, Jan. 24), the second of his two novels, is selling at a brisk 2,000 copies a week, and has already topped the total sales of his first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle-although the Chronicle won the National Book Award in 1958. Movie rights to both have been bought for $75,000, but it seems likely that any movie will mirror merely the realism. Cheever has been long acknowledged as a master of the short story, of which he has written over a hundred. Some...
...have heard two basic excuses for this neglect of Indian studies. The first is that Harvard should not embark on an Indian studies program unless it can do it properly and on a continuing basis ... Since the amount of Indian studies going on at present in this country is not exactly overwhelming, Harvard will itself have to assist in the necessary training. Add to this the fact that many people are already interested in India, and one sees the rather obvious necessity for some intermediate program until a center, can be established. This might consist of at least a couple...
...absurd about most operatic revivals. However lovingly a long-forgotten work may be recreated, to contemporary audiences the result usually seems more redolent of old mothballs than Old Master. Yet the brightest hits of the current music season in West Germany are two small relics of 100 years' neglect that have been resurrected by the sophisticated, experimental Hessische Landestheater in industrial Darmstadt. Germany's new discovery: Jacques Offenbach...