He neglected American literature entirely, except for a brief allusion to Pearl S. Buck.
The book I most enjoyed reading this year was The New York Stories by John O'Hara (Penguin Classics), a selection of the many superb short stories by this neglected American master.
Mr. Masur also chafes at the suggestion that he has neglected American music, asserting that as a leading international ensemble the Philharmonic must present an international repertory.
The company has long championed neglected American works, and here was an "absolutely sound operetta" by a major American composer, Mr. Kellogg said, "that had never been done in our lifetimes".
After West End-transferred productions of a neglected American show (The Pajama Game) and a modern classic (Sweeney Todd), Chichester turns to a revival of a work with strong claims to be the most perfect Broadway musical.
On one of my first visits, Michael and I bonded over a shared fascination with the work of Edward Whittemore, an unjustly neglected American writer who, after graduating from Yale, in 1955, served in the Marines and as a C.I.A. operative in the Far East and Jerusalem.
Samuel Lipman, the pianist and neo-conservative critic who has become the director of the Waterloo Music Festival in New Jersey, has made it his express intention to program neglected American composers from between the world wars - Samuel Barber, William Schuman, Howard Hanson, Walter Piston and many more.
A Time profile, from July of 1987, titled "Prom Queen of Soul," describes her "impeccable face, sleek figure, and supernova smile," like "a Cosby kid made in heaven," before arguing that Houston represents an "overdue vindication of that neglected American institution: the black middle class".
He printed this little selection in the Exile, and later on, in his book 'Polite Essays,' after speaking of William Carlos Williams as a great, neglected American writer, he referred to me as 'that still more unreceived and uncomprehended native hickory, Mr. Joseph Gould.' And here's Broom for August-November, 1923.
For this reason, he looked to native subject matter for the play, as opposed to other American dramatists like John Howard Payne who neglected American subject matter and locations.
