Word: shrifted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plagues, because, as one Reform authority now sheepishly explains, the plagues were considered "unworthy of enlightened sensitivities." The climactic, ringing phrase "Next year in Jerusalem!" was omitted too. It seemed overly Zionist to many Reform Jews of the time. The diligent preparations for Passover were given short shrift. Discussing the traditional pre-Seder search for hametz (the leavened, potentially leavened and leaven-tainted food that must be removed from use during Passover), the 1923 rite condescendingly described it as "a quaint ceremony ... still observed by the Orthodox Jews...
Similar peculiarities accounting for student apathy in local elections could probably be found at every college campus. Emphasis on the unique regional factors is no substitute for more generalized explanations of political indifference amongst students, but it is one component of an answer--one that is often given short shrift...
...College. Gradually the bitterness grew. During the mid-1960s, Harvard deliberately accepted more students than it could reasonably house, further ballooning the city's already acute low-income housing shortage. Some of the poor lost their homes to students, and more and more undergraduates were given short shrift on their education as their classes were for the most part taught by candidates for graduate degrees and not by full professors...
Robert Bell Reddick's Ten Walking Tours of Cambridge dismisses the building at 14 Plympton Street in about half a sentence, giving short shrift to its "neo-Georgian" design, and saying that Lampy's castle "puts to shame the Crimson Building." Harvard's semi-official book on it own architecture, Education, Bricks, and Mortar, doesn't mention the building at all, Newspaper buildings by and large are rough, functional structures, which serve a practical daily purpose and expedite the production of their publications. Few of them win architecture awards, and none of them can approach in grandeur the Lampoon...
Daly gives the subject very short shrift. "I'd rather not talk about it," he said last week. "The opinion of lawyers who have looked into this is that we're not required to register...