The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970.Edited by Nicholas Griffin.Routledge; 680 pages; $35 and £25"A GREAT deal of work has come upon me, neglect of some of which might jeopardise the continuation of the human race," wrote Bertrand Russell in a letter in 1967, explaining why he did not have time to comment in detail on a philosophical manuscript.
Prices are what they are as a result of rising global oil demand from India, China and a rapidly growing Middle East on top of our own increasing consumption, a shortage of "sweet" crude that is used for the diesel fuel that Europe is highly dependent upon and our own neglect of effective energy policy for 30 years.
On March 21, the Navy announced that Swift would be court-martialed for "through negligence, causing a vessel to run upon a rock" and "neglect of duty in regard to the above".
The Christians, believing that this tribulation came upon them for their neglect of the Law of God and their religious duties, began to fervently read the Krista Purana, an epic poem on the life of Jesus Christ written by the English Jesuit Thomas Stephens (1549 1619).
Under state education law, a trustee appointed by a governor can be removed by the governor only upon proof of official misconduct, neglect of duties or mental or physical incapacity.
Panelist after panelist lamented how today's emphasis upon speedy feet has led to a neglect of nuanced movements for the upper body.
However, a medical science that relies primarily upon achieving internal validity with a relative neglect of external validity (as, we argue, many RCTs do) is at great danger of ignoring the individual and context characteristics that impinge upon treatment outcome.
Cruelty to animals, Willful or wanton infliction of pain, suffering, or death upon an animal or the intentional or malicious neglect of an animal.
So melancholy a neglect of Darwin's work suggests reflections upon the use of those rare and precious possessions of man great books.
But in American letters there is often an odd sort of cosmic justice afoot through which much honor is conferred upon an artist's lesser works in an attempt to make amends for the neglect of his most obvious triumphs.
