Word: neglectment
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...play tag with their terror of failure. For failure is finally what Ordinary People is about. It may be Guest's ultimate irony that the older brother's drowning and Conrad's attempted suicide are only symbols for spiritual death-for a thousand subtle methods of neglect and undernourishment by means of which loved ones kill and are killed within the family circle...
...much rather see a pantomime or farce than Shakespeare, who is not one of his favorites. He is suspicious of all innovations and innovators. To give him his due, however, he seems to recognize his intellectual shortcomings, and has been heard to complain that his early education was sadly neglected. Still, despite the neglect and his mother's obvious harshness, George and Charlotte dutifully visited the old lady at her residence in Carlton House three times a week until her death...
...love for Cuba, of his memories of the Bay of Pigs invasion, of our duty to the Cubans we had promised to set free. But the rest of the United States has managed to forget the years devoted to crushing the "Communist island within ninety miles of our territory." Neglect has proved to be a simpler policy than military invasion. Extremist groups may still throw a hand grenade down the gangplank of a Russian cruise ship or threaten the airlines of countries resuming diplomatic relations with Cuba, but the lurid billboard in San Juan that showed Cuban soldiers executing prisoners...
Unfortunately however, I found these articles were in part flawed by your neglect of basic criteria of good reporting. I consider some aspects of your writing critically uninformed, irresponsible and over-sensationalized. I suspect these are shortcomings of style and tone that have long characterized The Crimson...
Next Step. Nonetheless, the U.S. has a long way to go to overcome the residue of skepticism left from years of neglect of Africa. Africans have not forgotten Secretary of State William Rogers' trip to the continent in 1970, when he pledged a "new interest" in black Africa. A National Security Council memo leaked in 1974 revealed that Kissinger had at that very time instituted a policy of "selective relaxation" toward white-minority regimes-and a policy of benign neglect toward black Africa...