Word: neglectment
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...current issue from the press of the Houghton Mifflin Co. Despite the fact that the various chapters were delivered as Lowell Lectures in 1916, they have lost none of the timeliness of their first appearance, and the volume remains one which the student of poetry cannot afford to neglect...
...Parsee lets his sacred flame die out, he is exceedingly upset, for the Parsee's flame is the Parsee's religion. Last week a great U.S. industry, in which Fire is a vital pillar of the structure of Profit, was horrified by the suggestion that it neglect its flames once a week...
...case of Juniors and Seniors this situation is particularly unfortunate in consideration of the theses and other additional work required of them in the second half of the year. To add to this already capacity load can do nothing more than force neglect in some field for the sake of checking up on routine assignments. In addition to this considerable grievance, hour examinations at the end of March divide the semester into two parts thus hindering the unification and sequence of the half year's work...
...movement continues sterile . . . from a variety of causes. One ... is the want of really compelling leaders, of men of genius having the warrant of creative artists. The other causes embrace an only fitful instinct for truth, an almost fantastical indifference to beauty, and a deplorable neglect of the fundamentals of workmanship. . . . There have been arid epochs before this, such as the Victorian and its equivalent across the Channel in the Paris of Napoleon III. . . . Mediocrity in those days had a stupendous vogue. Modernism is but repeating history. It will someday prove a kind of Victorian 'dud,' with...
...does not fall on either Garbo or O'Neill. In spite of a certain proportion of bunkum in its composition, Antia Christie is good stuff, vivid and well-constructed, with real people in it, and Garbo, as the Swedish girl who blames her luckless past on her father's neglect, is perfectly cast. One reason why this talkie is inferior to the wonderful silent picture made from the play six years ago is that the producers have apparently tried to turn it out too cheaply. Another reason is that it is stupidly directed. Every bone of the play's framework?...