Word: neglectment
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...later life" is stressed again in an editorial dealing with Chamber Concerts open to members of the University. After asking for support, it says, "Only in later life will those who entirely neglect music. . . appreciate what opportunities they have lost...
...sitting, for at best one's interest in Jonson nowadays is secondary. As Mr. T. S. Eliot once remarked, Jonson is more often praised than read; his plays also are seldom staged; somehow his greatness is taken for granted, but there is a dreadful conspiracy of silence and neglect. A vote taken in any company of ordinary students of literature would reveal that the group was more or less acquainted with the comedies: e.g., "The Alchemist", "Volpone", "Every Man in his Humour", but only the ambitious souls who sit up all night with the heroines of Voltaire, to use Lytton...
...success of the new Union, in Harvard at least, is that the leadership be entrusted permanently in reliable hands. One college generation of stupid leadership, one turnover of the "electorate", and the Union would fall into the sort of bad reputation which causes not healthy battle, but contemptuous neglect. An executive council largely made up of recognized student leaders, such as the Presidents of the Student Council and of Phillips Brooks House, would seem the best assurance that the organization would remain a parliament in which each individual and each group could fight without breaking up the whole...
Harris & Ewing is Washington's oldest and most conservative picture agency. Specializing in official portraits, it customarily takes great pains to curry official favor, stay in officialdom's good graces. In releasing this unusual photograph, however, Harris & Ewing did not merely neglect to explain the circumstances of its taking but captioned it as follows: "PENSIVE PRESIDENT PONDERS PROBLEMS. Washington, D. C. President Franklin Roosevelt, posing for photographers on his 54th birthday, is caught in a meditative pose. The photo was made a few minutes after he conferred with Secretary Henry Vallace, Solicitor General Stanley Reed, Attorney General Homer...
...potent medium of musical expression, the phonograph record, is being ignored by many of Harvard's music courses. Especially guilty of this omission is Music 3, and it is suffering immeasurably from its neglect of phonographic interpretation of lecture material...