Word: neglectment
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...cause of the current parental apathy and neglect, New York's Commissioner Whalen suggests, is that many of today's preschoolers have mothers who are too young to have been aware of the great polio panics of the early 1950s, or of the fetus-crippling rubella epidemics of the early '60s. In ethnic ghettos, poverty, illiteracy and language barriers are also factors...
...athletics--at the Quad or near the football field--has not progressed far beyond that stage. Dance is the only art form for which Harvard will not grant credit to those doing independent work. Dance--probably more severely than any of the arts--has suffered the severe brunt of neglect at Harvard. The avid dancer would be better off looking into some of Boston's excellent dance schools...
...some Portuguese journalists have grown even feistier. Jorno Novo, a Socialist daily founded just after nationalization by a former advertising man, earlier this month ran an exposé of what it called a secret government plan to impose censorship and fines of up to $20,000 for sins like "neglect of duty to sensitize the population to the great national tasks." Social Communications Minister Jorge Correia Jesuino, a Gonçalves intimate, refused to discuss the scheme, but even government-controlled papers hastily denounced it. Since then, an anti-Communist slate has easily won control of the nation...
Full Pension. Announcing his assumption of office, Mohammed was strongly critical of Gowon, charging that under him "the affairs of state became characterized by lack of consultation, indiscipline and even neglect." Mohammed, though, was not vengeful. He said that Gowon would be welcome to return to Nigeria "as soon as conditions are such that his security can be guaranteed." The ousted leader, moreover, would be awarded a "full pension befitting his rank...
Statements so at odds with visible urban needs--like "benign' neglect"--lead us to believe that our nation's policy makers are simply too lazy to walk a few blocks beyond their Washington office buildings. But more likely, at least in the case of the Nixon administration, the policy-makers probably stole a glance down the street and then opened up their copies of Edward C. Banfield's Unheavenly City to understand what they...