Word: neglectment
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...Denning Drives North (Carroll) is a better-than-average British thriller. John (Great Expectations) Mills, a successful jet-aircraft designer, suddenly begins to neglect his work, takes to drink, and wakes up screaming from nightmares. When he attempts suicide by crashing his plane, his wife (Phyllis Calvert) has it out with him, learns that he has accidentally killed an unsavory admirer of their daughter (Eileen Moore). What bothers Mills is not so much the killing as the fact that the dead man's body (which he had thrown in a ditch to make it seem a hit & run accident...
Charged in his wife's divorce suit with gross neglect, extreme cruelty and beating her "black and blue," former Light-Heavyweight Champion Joey Maxim protested that it wasn't that way at all. "Sure, we had some fights, but I always came out worse than she did. I take more than I dish...
...public-health problem and the tools to finish the job. In the U.S., at least, with plenty of space for its people, resources to house and feed them decently, and wonder drugs by the carload, the TB victim these days dies not so much from his disease as from neglect. Last week health and Government officials in Alabama were in distress as they faced up to the fact that, although their state runs an energetic TB detection campaign, it lags sadly in preventing the disease and caring for patients...
...true, Mayor Peirce would have been neither tried nor convicted. How well known is the fact that many, many cities of the country, including New York City, tolerate gambling, vice and thuggery of every kind, including the present condition of the New York waterfront, probably the worst scandal of neglect of law enforcement in the history of the country . . . Thank God, the reputation of New Bedford does not rest in the hands of TIME magazine...
...cover story and your speculation as to "how real can movies be" [TiME, June 8], you neglect a mention of the "feelies," [Aldous] Huxley's prophetic description [in Brave New World) of what civilization will be satiating itself on in some future popcorn bazaar. The feelies could not only be seen, smelt and heard but they could be "felt" with the aid of knobs attached to the arms of the viewer's chair. Thus a passionate kiss will become a personal sensation and a painful blow will become a source of masochistic satisfaction...