Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high importance. He subscribed to Cardinal Newman's celebrated notion that what the autobiography does for the life of a particular man, the novel must do for mankind. Gary needed every certitude of dedication to sustain a creative career that began late and even so, suffered from early neglect. When he published his first novel in 1932 (at the age of 43), he had already been struggling at his writing for nearly 20 years...
...Pakistan, mobs cried "Death to Ayub!" in protest against their President's neglect of long-festering economic and social problems. Germany, Italy and Japan were struck by the plague...
...other. The question was, how? Divorce was impossible except on the ground of adultery, a legal procedure regarded as unthinkably damaging socially. A dreadful, though never mutually acknowledged, duel began. As Effie came to see it, Ruskin was bent on forcing her to leave him not merely by his neglect but by throwing her at various gentlemen friends, including Millais, hoping to involve her in what she quaintly referred to as a "scrape." She, on her part, meticulously maintained a spotless reputation. For years she had not dared to tell anyone that she was, in the euphemism...
Effie won-apparently. When, encouraged by Millais, she finally fled to her parents and faced a public separation, she was able to prove that an annulment was justified. The scandal fell mainly on Ruskin, who had to pay damages for his marital neglect. But in falling chastely in love with Millais, was Effie not really falling into Ruskin's trap? Or was she merely a scheming baggage who outrageously embroidered her basic grievances for public consumption? The book leaves the matter in Piran-deloquent doubt...
Finally, so little is impressive about modernity; amidst a sort of garish decline, the loss of value in life itself, and a corresponding neglect of language, poets like Charles Simic are thinking about what it would be like to take what people think Rousseau means seriously...