Word: neglectment
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Clearly, a troubled nation was waiting for an explanation, a restoration of public trust. What it received instead was a plea by the President to put aside the "backward-looking obsession with Watergate [that] is causing this nation to neglect matters of far greater importance." He made no real effort to answer the damaging charges and questions that have emerged from three months of testimony before the Ervin committee; he merely reiterated that the charges against him were false. Perhaps understandably, he had nothing at all to say about the latest scandal to involve his Administration: the grand jury investigation...
Mitchum's performance is excellent. Although he is built too powerfully for the role of hapless Eddie (can the man help it if he's got shoulders which must be the envy of any professional football player?), he plays the part with an admirable neglect of movie star ego--implying that his talents have been neglected over the years. Unknowns Richard Jordan as Foley, the undercover policeman, and Steven Keats as Jackie Brown, the wise-guy kid, are also very good...
...author of the Administration's infelicitous phrase "benign neglect" ought to know when to leave well enough alone, and that is exactly what U.S. Ambassador to India Daniel P. Moynihan counseled from New Delhi not long ago in a wry cable to the State Department. The Agency for International Development had made a promise to the Indian government in April that an AID apartment-dining complex would be turned over to India. Two weeks ago Moynihan made good on the promise. Later the same day the State Department cabled him to hold up the gift, hoping to retain...
...national emergency," he says. "History will not wait until we sort ourselves out internally. I'm not saying that we shouldn't sort ourselves out internally. But while it goes on the world keeps moving, and we cannot neglect...
...Some, like Jeb Magruder and John Dean, seem swamped by feelings of guilt and self-recrimination. Others, like John Mitchell, gruffly deny any wrongdoing (as they see it), and seem quite willing to rape the Constitution again at their next convenience. Meanwhile, the White House, which once espoused "benign neglect" (guess who thought that one up) at the expense of our black population, now espouses benign neglect with regard to the Watergate hearings...