Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the police took him in, Gerald's hair was shorn, he was dressed in boy's clothing, and sent away to a children's home. His mother was charged with neglect. Sobbing, she said: "I sinned and had to bear my cross." The fact was, Anna Sullivan had made a child bear her cross...
...Richard Strauss' "Salome" was a very different story, and a very wonderful one. Singers and orchestra combined under Fritz Reiner's direction to give a really superb reading of Strauss' score and incidentally proved that "Salome" is an unusually fine opera which deserves far better treatment than the austere neglect it received until the Met's revival last month...
More to the point, this was definitely one of the group's ups, and they performed the Mass with such success that its 160-odd years of neglect seem an unforgivable oversight. The only uncooperative figure was Trinity Church itself, which turned out to be an acoustical flop. It has no capacity for distributing sound throughout its Romanesque caverns, and if you were sitting as I was with the basses and tenors turned away from you, you scarcely heard them...
...compulsory insurance since 1938. Costs come from a general social security levy of 7.5% on all incomes. Nearly 2,000,000 New Zealanders are entitled to free medical care except for specialist services. Most telling criticism has been that doctors are doing so well financially that they neglect research and spurn lower-paying hospital posts...
...West's moral community broke under the impact of great historic forces. It began to neglect a simple truth-that liberty, as Edmund Burke put it, cannot exist "without order and virtue...