Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Troilus and Cressida (by William Shakespeare) has only once-and then as a Players Club frolic-been done on Broadway within living memory. Its neglect is easily explained: Troilus is a difficult as well as an imperfect play. Yet its neglect is scarcely warranted, for there is much that is special, fascinating, even fine about it, and much in its mood for a modern audience to respond to. With bitter and debunking cynicism, Shakespeare slashed in Troilus at the great fabric of the Trojan War, to rend its romance and heroism to tatters, to reduce its Homeric clang to verbosity...
...after El Greco's death at 73, his body was moved from Santo Domingo to another church, and then all trace of it was lost. In time the currents of taste turned against El Greco. The Santo Domingo Adoration was allowed to become so begrimed under centuries of neglect that few art historians noted or reproduced it. Last year the church, hard up to finance repairs, sold it to Madrid's Prado for $55,000. It took the Prado's experts nine months to clean and restore it. Today, the Adoration hangs in a place of honor...
Said the University of Toronto's President Sidney Smith to his students: "If you choose to work, you will succeed; if you don't, you will fail. If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it. If you join little cliques, you will be self-satisfied; if you make friends widely, you will be interesting. If you gossip, you will be slandered; if you mind your own business, you will be liked. If you act like a boor, you will be despised; if you act like a human being...
...last week. Enthusiasm for the idea cut across class and party lines. Fifty leading bankers, industrialists, economists and union leaders promptly joined in publishing a statement which declared that "the European common market could enable Europe to establish healthy economic relations with the rest of the world. If we neglect to minister to its birth, it may outgrow us and have little need of Britain." A group of 82 Labor M.P.s and another of 89 Tories, more than 25% of the House of Commons, got behind similar resolutions. The press, save only Lord Beaverbrook's empire-minded Daily Express...
...this Cambridge autumnal phenomenon--the lush full beard--has been suffering lately from the kind of neglect that springs from sowing a field too heavily with wheat. But we broached this subject once to a Student Council member, whose avocation is Marine Biology. He thought we were talking about freshwater shrimp, lectured us for some minutes in off-the-record fashion about the cusine at During Park, and concluded with a prepared statement about Council endorsement of private enterprise...