Word: neglectment
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...nobody found Langley. Excited people thought they saw him, all over the city. But all the reports were wrong. The police speculated on another theory-that Langley had disappeared before the mysterious telephone call, that Homer had simply died of neglect. But where had he gone? Was Langley dead...
Readers need not be too surprised by this neglect: A Raw Youth reads like a congestion of rubbery, raw material. Dostoevsky himself recognized this and argued that it was hard to give "artistic finish" to characters who were struggling in transition-i.e., in 19th Century Russia's changeover from a land of seigneurs and serfs to a modern, industrially minded nation, distinguished (in Dostoevsky's opinion) by "general lawlessness and chaos...
...they go in for liberty to the neglect of everything else. Those who keep to the law they .call "willing slaves," and they praise to the skies rulers who behave like subjects and subjects who behave like lords...
...making little headway against public enemy No. i: heart disease. Though heart disease, as obituary columns remind readers every day, is now the biggest killer (nearly 600,000 deaths a year), it gets scant research attention. Even more shocking, says the American Heart Association, is the nation's neglect of the treatable disease known as rheumatic fever...
...office-furniture industry does not neglect the executive's helpers. On display at the same Chicago show last week was a new automatic typewriter-a gadget which makes up business letters from numerous combinations of recorded sentences (e.g., "yours of the tenth inst. rec'd."). The canned prose is recorded on a roll (something like grandfather's player piano), the roll is inserted in the machine, buttons are pressed for the desired combination, and the machine automatically types them into a letter. Price for this wonder...