Word: amnesia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...similarity to former president Reagan's amnesia defense is disturbing. After The Independent quoted Lee as saying he "wasn't aware," I asked him how he expected anyone to believe him. He insisted that the heated discussion of ROTC's anti-gay discrimination never penetrated his skull during the council debate. Just as with Reagan, I don't know which would be worse: if he was lying or telling the truth...
...amnesia, the disorder of advanced electronic societies, is not the only possible derangement of national memory. There are cultures that remember nothing and cultures that forget nothing. Forgetting nothing might be worse. Remembering nothing produces a mere mindless, stumbling insouciance. Forgetting nothing produces paralysis and death...
...least read of all the books I'd written because it is about something that the characters don't want to remember, I don't want to remember, black people don't want to remember, white people don't want to remember. I mean, it's national amnesia...
...past eight years have been not an era of good feelings, as Reagan would like us to believe, but an age of amnesia. With his sweet voice, Reagan has numbed the nation. His speeches, the last of which, his "farewell address," took place last Thursday, have been trips to the dentist's office. Get the novocaine ready, Nancy, I'm speaking to the country tonight...
...Nussbaum, she said she belonged to a sadomasochistic cult. "Joel put the story in my mind," she testified, adding that he "would encourage me to come up with stories, fantasies about what happened. Since I had no actual memories of this myself, I believed I had some sort of amnesia about...