Word: neglect
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...evidence is clear. The primary task of this University--education and research--is falling into neglect under a system with bureaucratic incentives for efficiency and economy. Without a vigorous attempt to change the attitudes and antediluvian methods with which Harvard manages its money, students can expect to continue to pay more and get less...
...lack of talent--which is brought up through the system from the freshman team--means the program must rely more and more on foreign players. This is an additive process: the success of foreign players has brought about the neglect of the junior varsity; this neglect results in an even greater reliance on this fragile group of foreign talent...
...neglect, or de-emphasis, of the junior varsity is due also to the failure of the assigned JV coach, Seamus Malin, to devote his energies to this program. "Seamus simply has not been able to establish enough time to teach players," Kidder said in explanation...
...kill them. The most attractive element of the story is the hero's own first-person accounts. "My thoughts explode in words," Main exclaims. Elkin's recurring images literally explode off the page: Main sees a "Cincinnati beneath him like a crescent of jawbone, the buildings dental, gray as neglect, the Ohio juicing the town like saliva;" he speaks a "dialogue alive on my teeth like plaque;" and in a natural museum, "It is the teeth that he comes back again and again to see, as if these were the distillate of the animal's soul, the cutting, biting edge...
...Neill, Carlotta said, could feel "real love" only for his plays. Only Oona survived O'Neill's catastrophic fatherliness, which seemed to consist of a month of misleading warmth and charm followed by years of neglect, or hostility. After a brilliant start as a Greek scholar at Yale, Eugene Jr. killed himself. Shane turned to heroin, Oona turned to Charlie Chaplin, and both were eventually disinherited. But the family, the scene of O'Neill's greatest failure as a man, was the occasion for his greatest success as a writer. O'Neill is uneven...