Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...embittered refugees who have resorted to terrorist warfare out of mounting frustration. Although it might seem not only brutal but futile for the Palestinians to resort to terrorist action directed toward helpless Israeli kibbutzniks, one must realize that many Palestinian commandos have sadly concluded that 30 years of international neglect have made such terrorist action necessary to cry out their cause...
...tube. In fact, the author is also a lively raconteur, poet (Blue Juniata), critic (A Second Flowering) and living history of the liberal temper. At 79 he is older than the century, and wiser. He has witnessed the failure of his early radicalism and watched favorite writers fall into neglect and obscurity. Yet, almost alone of his generation, he remains unafflicted by bitterness. Every chapter of -And I Worked at the Writer's Trade reveals a humane and spacious...
Repeated and soothing reassurances by our political leaders that "we're No. 1" cannot forever obscure the fact that their neglect of our defenses, although politically expedient, is an inexcusable flirtation with disaster...
...Home provided a welcome shelter from the abuse and neglect of his natural parents who had scarred his early childhood. No wonder he wishes to be a "great fixer;" he spent his second year of life hospitalized for surgery, abandoned by his mother, and was later beaten and burned by his father. This sort of experience is common to many of the children there...
...added he believes that Marxist intellectuals who continue to stress revolution may neglect their role as social critics in analyzing the exploitative practices of capitalist society...