Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dope addiction). Disinherited by the father who had long ignored him, and unemployed since his collaboration on the 1959 bestseller, The Curse of the Misbegotten: A Tale of the House of O'Neill, the famed playwright's son was arraigned last week on his saddest charge yet: neglect of his four children. After finding not a single bed in the ramshackle Point Pleasant, N.J., home where his offspring slept on inflated swimming mats, police jailed O'Neill in lieu of $1,000 bail...
...occasionally, excellent short stories. But his fiction trilogy of Jewish life in Brooklyn-which caused critics to compare him to the best novelists of his day-has been treasured for years by a small band of Fuchs fans. Now reissued, the three novels must put aside the glamour of neglect to face the harsh light of new scrutiny. They look less like notable achievements than noteworthy beginnings...
...serious students of the Civil War era, like Pulitzer-prize-winning historian David Donald, all of the hoopla is some-what deceptive. For the most able and original American historians, according to Donald, have tended to neglect the Civil War period, leaving it to Margaret Mitchell and her followers. In the groves and glades of Academe, the war has not been fashionable...
Theobald's defense of the neglect, which affected almost as many new schools as old ones, was to blame the past. "I do not believe our schools have been properly maintained for 40 years," he said. Obviously, he was right. For years the ponderous bureaucracy had left unspent most of the millions allocated for repairs. Last year, for the first time, the full maintenance budget of $18 million was spent, but the backlog for needed repairs is estimated at $75 million...
...Chosen Targets. Though Tyrex advertising does not neglect the motorist, its prime targets are Detroit's automakers and their dealers. Playing on the auto-men's conviction that nothing is so important in selling a car as a smooth ride, Tyrex made much of the fact that when a car with nylon tires is parked overnight, its tires tend to develop a flat spot at the point of contact with the road and will go back to a perfect circle only after several miles of driving. Christening this condition "nylon thump," the rayon makers hammered away...