Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While he was off in Moscow congratulating the Russians on the 50th anniversary of their revolution last November, Dubček remained behind to organize his revolt against Novotný. Using Slovak grievances over their neglect and the bungled state of the economy as rallying cries, Dubček won the party's "liberal" faction to his cause. Back from the Soviet Union, Novotný quickly found himself outmaneuvered and outvoted in the Presidium, whose interminable meetings last month degenerated into angry personal clashes between Novotn...
...produce such works as The Will to Believe, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Pragmatism and A Pluralistic Universe seems almost miraculous-even with such an excellent guide as Professor Allen to offer explanation. As for James's influence today, Biographer Allen notes that after a generation of neglect, psychologists are making sympathetic re-evaluations of James's belief in the need for values and disciplined thinking...
...startling degree, American parents have handed child raising to educational institutions that can not or will not do the job. Not that parents deliberately neglect children; life has simply changed. Families have lost unifying economic functions and have shrunk to two adults with no aunts, uncles or grandparents to help guide the children. All the heat is on parents, but fathers typically work in distant offices, leaving mothers to raise sons with insufficient fatherly support. Too many mothers are preoccupied with their outside activities-everything but the children...
...government regulation of the size of families-a concept that most nations have found impossible to accept. In a more Orwellian guise, writes Davis, such control might include pressure through limits on availability of housing, manipulation of inflation to force mothers to work, increased city congestion by the deliberate neglect of transit systems, and increased personal insecurity through rigged unemployment...
...called the double reverse runaround. Each network runs a post-game show that reports final scores of other contests and, like everything else in TV, the advertising revenue for these "wrap-ups" is dependent upon ratings. Thus in the fourth quarter of a televised football game, announcers conveniently neglect to give the scores of other games lest they discourage viewers from staying tuned for the wrapup...