Word: amnesia
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...Hampshire police yesterday confirmed that a female amnesia victim found last week is not Joan L. Webster, a Graduate School of Design student missing since November...
...collective amnesia has seized the participants in that tragedy. Liberals have been reluctant to assume any responsibility for the consequences of their two great causes of the 1970s. Some of the "neoconservatives" who had moved from the liberal to the conservative side after Viet Nam had few incentives to recall their own contributions to the collapse of international restraints. They forgot that they had assaulted as too bellicose the same foreign policy that five years later they denounced as retreat...
...been born on Roosevelt's birthday, told him last summer that it would soon be the F.D.R. centennial, Kovler began asking what celebrations were being planned. To his amazement he learned that virtually nothing was being done. The U.S. seemed to be suffering what Kovler calls a "collective amnesia." Says he: "It has been...
...Salvador makes sense; it fits with everything one would expect from the historical record of our foreign policy. And the forgetfulness of the left, or liberals, of the Democratic party, is not really shocking, for it also matches historical patterns of laziness and neglect. The second phemonenon--the amnesia of the left--will have to be cured before the first--the government's moral and strategic blindness--can be cured. Until it does, the cycle of crisis-alarm-forgetfulness will continue. Fifty-four weeks is a damn short stretch of time...
...Vries has his own compulsion, operating with an old-fashioned belief that more is more. In Sauce for the Goose, subplots sprout out of subplots. He even deploys amnesia in one story line, forgetting just why the line began in the first place. No pratfall is beneath him. His pun can still be mightier than his word, and he delights in portmanteau items, as in the case of the little band of fundamentalists who obstinately refuse to cut their "umbibli-cal" cord. But at times his verbal games can become so outrageous that you can't see de words...