Word: neglectment
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...speaking at midnight, several other ministers and UNITA leaders spoke, although none had his style. Then, until four in the morning, the meeting turned into a self-criticism session; members of the audience made complaints and suggestions to the assembled leaders. Some mentioned corruption. Others complained about incompetency and neglect. Savimbi promised that if the charges were backed up by evidence, commanders and administrators would lose their jobs...
...oppression, several black leaders took offense at his use of terms like "tangle of pathology" to describe the Negro family. Shortly afterward, Moynihan left his job at Labor. His stint as director of Nixon's Urban Affairs Council ended a year after his memo urging a period of "benign neglect" of the racial issue was leaked to the press in 1970. Moynihan still bristles at what he regards as widespread misinterpretation of that phrase. It did not, he insists, refer to less Government attention to civil rights, but to a need for more care, at a time of high racial...
After the"benign neglect" flap, Moynihan stayed out of the limelight until Nixon made him Ambassador to India in 1973. Arriving in New Delhi at a time when Indo-American relations were at their lowest ebb?in the wake of the U.S. tilt toward Pakistan in its 1971 war with India?Moynihan wisely decided to keep an uncharacteristically low profile. He stayed close to his official residence, Roosevelt House, which he loathed; he gave private showings of John Ford films to American visitors, and made only one or two speeches. The restraints of the New Delhi post have made...
HARVARD HAS NEVER been known as a place that gives much institutional support to the creative arts, and 414 student musicians signed a petition last week objecting to some of the less benign aspects of the University's neglect. The specific charges in the petition are undeniable: that there is a serious shortage of decent pianos, rehearsal space and sheet music, and that a single course in musical performance--with enrollment limited to less than thirty--hardly begins to fill the needs of Harvard's instrumentalists...
ELSEWHERE, HIS concern with words leads him to neglect other aspects of his story, and the whole tends to dissipate into airy lyricism. "The Legitimacy of Medium Beauty" is simply one long and structureless description, where character development is reduced to a series of pretty but uninformative images...