Word: amnesia
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...word amnesty comes from the Greek root amnestia, which means to forget, overlook, or become oblivious to. Amnesia has the same root. Amnesty does not mean to ask forgiveness--but to wipe the slate clean. To demand this is to ask the government to admit to the American public that its Asia policy was wrong and that those who have opposed it were right...
...world-famous physician. Death is no mystery to him; it is simply a cold, banal fact. Love is the great puzzle, and it keeps turning cancerous in his hands. At the height of his career, Jesse is an important Chicago neurosurgeon. Delivering a learned paper on "Retrograde Amnesia," he notes that in certain brain injuries recent memories are more easily extinguished than distant memories. "Is it a function of the normal brain," he asks, "to hold the present cheaply and to honor only the distant past...
...irony with an almost wanton tenderness, and a languid young hero who drifted from years of daydreaming about love to a gradual awareness of the real thing. Percy's second novel, The Last Gentleman (1966), was also about a vague young man, this one afflicted with occasional amnesia...
...television on-without sound-all evening long. "I'm afraid the world will end when I'm not looking," he says. During lunch he watches .Days of Our Lives. "I love the recurring themes in soap-opera serials. The women get pregnant and the men get amnesia. The perfect fictional character would have progressive amnesia. I might do a novel about that...
...unhappy over the Jarring talks, complaining that Jarring has become more a participant than an overseer. "We've ended up negotiating with Jarring and not with the Egyptians," complained an Israeli official last week. Israel would like Jarring to contract what Foreign Minister Abba Eban described as "diplomatic amnesia," whereby he would forget everything that has happened so far in the talks and start new, direct negotiations between Israel and Egypt...