Word: amnesia
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Sharpton, the opening speaker at the Harvard Black Law Students Association's Spring Career/Alumni Conference, spoke before an audience of 250. He stressed duty to the community above individual careers, warning the audience "of an epidemic going around the country-Negro amnesia...
...first year student suffered a concussion and a case of minor amnesia after she was struck by a car last week while crossing Quincy Street...
...journalist and essayist for the PBS MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour, Rodriguez knows that Americans grasp their history lightly if at all. In a multiethnic society, it's a cultural disorder that has had its advantages. Historical amnesia has been useful to the 12-step process of national amalgamation. Forget just a bit who you were, and it was easier to become someone else -- an American...
There is no doubt that many Asian-Americans have been very economically successful. But success in our private lives and businesses too often functions as a form of amnesia, making us forget persistent problems in the public sphere. No matter how hard we work and try to assimilate, Asian-Americans remain victims of hateful and racial violence...
However brilliant you are, the salient moment of death is unavoidable. And with death comes forgetfulness by others, even complete amnesia if you're unlucky. Hedonism is a wonderful principle, just until the time when you start taking your own adventures a little bit too seriously. These people cluster around campus, these short-sighted nothings who cannot see beyond the tail of reputation behind them and the promise of greatness before. Such souls are not to be admired, but pitied, for they fail to understand that we live and die, that we depend on others, that their achievements...