Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bridge and, generally, a better preparation for university teaching. It is true that Ox-bridge PhD candidates are given a great deal of independence, but very few of those I was with at Cambridge considered this "exhilarating." I think we though of it more in the way of benign neglect. Peter Dale Senior Tutor, Adams House
...lives with the knowledge that such efforts are often unsuccessful. He also knows that reported incidents of child abuse in the state of Massachusetts have jumped from 122 in 1967 to 15,000 last year, an increase only partly due to a 1974 law redefining child abuse to include "neglect." "Nine years ago," he admits, "I thought I could go in and talk to parents and correct mistakes they'd been making for the past 33 years of their lives. But there...
...most states parental rights to discipline their children are limited only by a patchwork of legal injunctions against serious physical injury and flagrant neglect. Members of the protective service must hide their own anger and proceed with a blend of cajolery, compassion and very limited powers of compulsion as they try to protect abused children. The welfare department's official charge, though, is with nothing less than "preserving healthy family life" in the state. Often, helping children means trying to bring parents to such a condition of emotional stability that they will no longer want to beat their kids...
Kahn never seems to neglect his work for more than a moment or two. Whenever he gets into a plane or car, he starts scribbling something. Occasionally he gives the impression of a slightly manic professor as he strolls about in his stocking feet, commenting on whatever comes into his mind. But he also appears to have no trouble relaxing at his Washington home, where he lives with his wife, Mary, a silk-screen artist; they have three children. Kahn swims, skis, jogs and likes to sing Gilbert and Sullivan tunes. A certain whimsy is often on display...
...equipment was only two years old and already showed signs of neglect. Toilets that the Chinese once scrubbed meticulously were now subjected to desultory and occasional swabbings by Tanzanian and Zambian workers. The dining car was clean but cramped and hot; its $2.50 menu, passengers joked, included only two choices: chicken and rice, and rice and chicken. In second and third class, travelers swayed together, jammed six or eight to a compartment...