Word: neglections
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...mail tends to proliferate, forcing users to scroll through useless verbiage to find the information they need. Some systems are impossibly hard to use, others are plagued by malicious hackers. Rockwell's Sutter reports that even defense contractors' employees can become so engrossed with on-line browsing that they neglect their legitimate work, squandering whatever productivity gains the technology might have brought...
More important, Bertagna doesn't neglect the outstanding individuals behind both the successes and the failures. Its their story--their triumph, if you will. And Bertagna's as well...
...disagree about the relative importance of openness concerning funding compared to openness of sources and other sources of corruption of scholarship. I repeat that the focus on sources of funding and the relative neglect of the issue of openness reflects a broader erosion of principles that all scholars as scholars share with one another concerning intersubjectively valid ideas of evidence and its assessment. The work itself, its arguments and evidence, is the thing, a more important thing, in my opinion, than knowing who paid for it. Openness is a value. So is my right to privacy. I always have been...
...first would be the promotion of women's studies at the University. Harvard is now beginning to consider a women's studies concentration, after years of arguing its uselessness, but the process is a slow one and sure to be derailed in the long run by administrative neglect--for precedent, consider the story of the Afro-Am Department...
...weak that the weight of a cherry would lacerate his stomach. Duras also includes a chilling portrait of the Gestapo officer who arrested her husband and who then, impressed by Duras's literary reputation, tried to court her, confiding his dreams of owning an art bookshop. Duras does not neglect the vengeful postwar period, when Resistance members continued the battle, taking their turn at torturing and executing collaborators. No recent memoir has evoked the 1940s in France so eloquently or paid such close attention to suffering and emotional numbness. The diarist spares no one, neither the victims, the victors...