Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gollobin probably meant well. "Are we going to be hearing any more about benign neglect over the next three years, Professor Moynihan?" he asked, and grinned a wide grin for the TV cameras...
Moynihan has been trying hard to put "benign neglect" behind him these past seven years. Now, he's about to put Harvard behind him, apparently for good...
...appreciated for themselves and as arenas in which to play--and for exactly that reason, architecture is fully appreciated neither as author nor as experience. The buildings we know well, we take for granted; they seem so functional that we forget their role as artificers and artifacts, and neglect the built environment until too late. Thus New Yorkers wept more for the loss of the Brooklyn Dodgers than for Penn Station; Harvard recovered its Greek coins, but threw away Hunt Hall...
...study of the black family in which he alleged that a "pathological" matriarchal structure was in part responsible for blacks' inferior socio-economic status, and from a memo to former president Richard M. Nixon suggesting that the Administration cool the volatile political climbate by adopting a policy of "benign neglect" on racial and urban matters. Although Moynihan has said repeatedly that the "benign neglect" remark was quoted out of context, and that his purpose in the black family study was to advocate the establishment of government programs to aid blacks, there remains a considerable amount of anti-Moynihan sentiment among...
...there before was a nebbish, but I think I like the way he wore his hair better. Didn't neglect it like this guy does. But I suppose it's benign. (Note: this is an obligatory joke, which may be skipped at the discretion of the reader...