Word: neglectment
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...surge in overseas drug arrests of American travelers is largely the result of a crackdown by foreign governments. They are disturbed at the emergence of narcotics problems in their own countries. Furthermore, some widely publicized drug-connected horrors, particularly the Sharon Tate murders, have helped to erode whatever benign neglect traveling American hippies once enjoyed abroad. A few of the jailed Americans are professional smugglers, supplying the Mob in the U.S. "But most of them," says Cusack, "are not pros in the true sense. They have no records. They are users, and many of them are 'missionaries.' They...
...preaching a radical Gospel. He is chairman of the Black Economic Development Conference, whose field director, James Forman, stunned U.S. churches and synagogues last year with a Black Manifesto demanding "reparations" of $500 million for the years of suffering that blacks endured at white hands, and the years of neglect by white churches. Though B.E.D.C. has collected less than $200,000 so far, other black groups and caucuses within white denominations have also been recipients of sizable "conscience" funds. And with its own gifts, B.E.D.C. has already started a publishing house (Black Star Press), a radio station in Cleveland, community...
Outside of their art, these men are often as passionately involved with the black predicament as any of their more graphically explicit colleagues. Chicago's Richard Hunt, 34, makes welded sculptures out of old automobile parts, and has had no complaint of studied neglect-he has been shown in museums from New York to Milwaukee to Pittsburgh to Houston. "But I'm not running away from being black," he insists. "I live in a ghetto-type situation now, and I'm involved with trying to get new low-cost housing in this neighborhood. It's different...
Ultimately the cause of more disability and deaths is simple neglect compounded by the inadequacy of health education classes in many public schools. A six-year-old black girl in the South dies of diphtheria because no one ever told her mother that she should have her baby inoculated against the disease-or bothered to make sure that she did it. In fact, says Egeberg, more than 20% of nonwhite children have failed to get the standard shots against diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough (a combination "DTP" vaccine), while 91.4% of all white children have had them...
...almost any other black poet is like being held in a dark room while listening to an angry voice threaten him in a language he is not expected to appreciate or understand. The angry voices belong to poetry guerrilla fighters who talk "Black English" and ignore accepted aesthetics. They neglect the usual critical dictums. Most black poets are revolutionaries, or try to be. Sometimes they mouth propaganda, but they are also creating a powerful record of their people's anguish and accompanying rage...