Word: neglectment
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...tranquil, so quiescent seems Black America in the Nixon Era that a presidential partisan could well argue that "benign neglect" has worked. The ghettos have, by and large, endured quiet summers. The rhetoric of black militants seems to have cooled. In a variety of ways, in increasing numbers, blacks are cracking the system -slowly, no doubt, but making it nevertheless...
Asked at the tea about the memorandum in which he recommended to Nixon a policy of "benign neglect" toward America's racial problem. Moynihan explained that "I meant we must stop looking at people as primarily white or black: we should concentrate on the progress blacks have been making, not on racial rhetoric...
...effects. In this particular setting, the director of an American Studies program at a Western school interviewed me for his own pleasure more than as an academic necessity. After the usual jockeying for a topic to discuss, he gradually worked himself into a discussion of the (to him) shameful neglect with which Harvard's American Civilization program is supervised. One could sense the need of this tenured man from a coastal tomato field to assert his own identity by striking out at that oppressive ogre in Cambridge, through me, the local embodiment. Suddenly, I found myself defending Harvard's tough...
...Abri's message is a Christianity that the world has forgotten. It is a Christianity which accepts the Bible as truly the Word of God but does not accept that truth in order to neglect the tangible problems of he world. In the process, L' Abri rejects and transcends the position of most 20th-century churches, which lend unfounded spiritual support to the established order. The people at L' Abri believe that God's truth cannot be molded by either side of a political or philosophical spectrum to fit any particular viewpoint. It is God's truth, exhibited...
PRESIDENT Nixon calls them "universities of crime." Chief Justice Burger has become a crusader for their reform. Legislators have taken to investigating them?and citizens have finally begun to listen. After decades of ignoring their prisons, Americans are slowly awakening to the failure that long neglect has wrought...