Word: remiss
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...women with children under 18 are in the work force (in contrast to 28% of women with children in 1960), that maternity leave and child care -- always issues for the working poor -- have become important for the majority of American women. Only today does the women's movement seem remiss in having failed to give greater emphasis to these matters. "The things I fought for are now considered quaint," complains Erica Jong, a best-selling feminist novelist. "We've won the right to be exhausted, to work a 30-hour day. Younger women say, 'Who wants that?' They...
Even the Supreme Court, which never goes on strike, said the government had been remiss in not giving judges and their helpers more protection...
...developed this program as a result of mypart in several programs to discuss theConstitution," Ogletree said. "In all of theseprograms, very few young people were inattendance. I concluded that we are remiss in notteaching them about the Constitutionspecifically...
...would be remiss not to provide professors with the obligatory exhortations to get more involved with students. Of course those exhortations have been made lots of times. It might be interesting to see who has listened. Why doesn't CUE find out, for instance, how many senior theses various professors advise--and publish the results for all to see? Peer pressure might provide more effective motivation for take-it-easy profs than the shrill pronouncements of a student-faculty committee...
Those who follow the column will rejoice at this second helping of Trillin's Nation material (the first collection of these columns, Uncivil Liberties, was published in 1982). But I would be remiss if I did not mention that there is reason to believe Trillin is becoming, as my mother used to put it, "a bit like Paul Revere's ride--a little light in the belfry...