Word: amnesia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Amnesia...
...remember." The last time we heard that tune was when the man no German ever mentions nowadays proclaimed to a hysterical following that in 1918 it was the German people and not the German army that had surrendered . . . Don't let us in for a fit of collective amnesia again like after...
Murder on Monday (London Films; Mayer-Kingsley), by employing good taste and an intelligent variation on the old amnesia theme, turns out to be one of the season's most sure-handed thrillers...
...married woman of 28 was more remarkable because she insisted that although she had borne two children, she knew nothing of the "facts of life." Dr. Kelsey admits the scientific possibility that she may have been suffering from hysterical amnesia. However, he says: "I am quite sure she had no knowledge of [the biological details of] conception." Under hypnosis: "She soon regressed to a scene in which she felt she had just been born. She was choking from something wound tightly around her neck. She had no idea what this could be. I asked her to trace it. Her hand...
...Then Wilfred -or the man Sutherland believed to be Wilfred - was swallowed up in the crowd, and pushed into a train which whisked him away before John Sutherland's shock had worn off. Sutherland's conclusion: Wilfred survived the war but came out a nameless victim of amnesia...