Word: neglectment
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Many are glad to end their working days. For people with money, good health, careful plans and lively interests, retirement can be a welcome time to do the things they always dreamed of doing. But for too many others, the harvest of ''the golden years" is neglect, isolation, anomie and despair. One of every four Americans 65 or over lives at or below "the poverty line." Some of these 5,000,000 old people were poor to begin with, but most are bewildered and bitter nouveaux pauvres, their savings and fixed incomes devoured by spiraling property taxes and other forms...
Civil rights and militant groups attacked a proposal contained in a confidential memorandum to the President on proper Administration stance toward the problems of blacks. As leaked to the press, the memorandum suggested a policy of "benign neglect" toward blacks, and urged the President instead to pay more attention to low-income and working-class whites...
...calculated appeal to hardhat militancy, insisting that the report "deals with all people in a certain economic status, regardless of race." But it is not lost on the White House that winning the hearts and votes of white workingmen and women will require more than a program of "benign neglect...
...latest of which is pollution and the ecology." He listed some specific Government acts that he contended have "given encouragement to the Southern racists." Among them were the nominations of Clement Haynsworth Jr. and George Harrold Carswell to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Pat Moynihan memo suggesting a "benign neglect" of racial problems and the Administration's initial support, now reversed, of tax exemption for "white, separate private schools...
...accurate assessment of the controversy was offered by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who told the N.A.A.C.P. convention that he "hated to believe" that the Administration was antiblack. "It's not that they are aginners," he said, "but rather they are do-nothingers. They are guilty of neglect, not malice." In fact, the Administration can have it both ways. Even if it is not really antiblack, the charge that it is certainly does not constitute a political liability in some parts of the U.S. On the other hand, as the Administration proved last week, it has done just enough...