Word: neglectment
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Gradually, Columbia hit upon a solution: it divided its curriculum into three basic fields-the humanities and the social and natural sciences-and required freshmen and sophomores to explore all three. "A false 'specialization' that chooses to neglect even one of these fields," cried Harry Carman, "is like a three-legged stool with only two legs...
...cannot take a man without basic football instinct and teach him to block like a man with good football instinct. Valpey and his staff worked on blocking every day of the season. They did not neglect this fundamental...
Will Hollywood moviemakers go after some of this rich gravy by aiming more pictures at adults? Obviously, Hollywood's bosses cannot neglect the mass audience that keeps 19,000 U.S. theaters going. But as the sureseaters keep growing, their operators-and their surefire audiences-are hoping that some producers will be tempted...
...think it is a disgraceful misinterpretation and neglect of duty for him to concern himself with local politics and relegate matters of national import to secondary consideration...
Little attention was paid to Mr. Green -so little, in fact, that Evelyn Waugh (who had just made a hit with his second novel, Vile Bodies) angrily described Living as "a neglected masterpiece." Henry Green abetted this neglect himself. He made little attempt to mingle with other literary lights, declined to be photographed. (As a special concession, last month he allowed himself to be photographed for TIME, but only in hands-to-face masquerade-see cut.) But the gossip columnists of that year had been idly poking around in search of something to say about the wedding bells...