Word: neglectment
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...journalists, caught up in the swirl of fast-breaking events, it is sometimes easy to neglect the longer view, to forget the lessons of history. At TIME, we try to make the past a frequent companion. Every so often the magazine does a cover story on a figure of both historical significance and current concern: Adam Smith (the future of capitalism, 1975), Thomas Jefferson (the nation's Bicentennial, 1975) and, this week, the American past. Our subject, on the eve of Independence Day, is history itself, specifically the growing reappraisal by historians and ordinary citizens alike of the civics...
...call it, has a more contemporary design than Page One, with bolder and wider headlines and more graphics-or what passes for graphics at the determinedly unvisual Journal. It introduces weekly columns on small business, regional trends, real estate, marketing and science and technology, subjects the paper tended to neglect in the past. The lower left-hand corner is reserved for short, sprightly yarns; one last week cheekily examined the rich man's version of the box radios so popular with street people. The new page even has a rather tepid corporate gossip column called "Shop Talk...
...expect us to care about protecting our freedom or country when we neglect our environment, neighbors and families? It will take Soviet soldiers breaking down our back doors before we realize what was worth protecting and saving...
...physician cannot heal himself. Helplessly he witnesses the indiscriminate dispensing of sleeping pills in order to give the house staff an easier night, the neglect of infections, the imperious commands made by the vertical to the horizontal. His exhausted wish is for "a rule that every doctor must spend one week a year in a hospital bed. That would change things in a hurry...
When patients are released, their records go to the local mental health center, which follows up on the case whether the patient cooperates or not. That way, says Yale Psychiatrist Walter Reich, an expert in Soviet therapeutic methods, "no one suffers from neglect, but it is very difficult to get away from the system. If you don't want to be involved with the mental health service, once you are identified as a patient, you get followed nonetheless...