Word: amnesiacs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Someone not very nice once succinctly enumerated our contemporary tendencies "toward the literal, the conformist, and the amnesiac." Although the first two trends are probably guiding your dismissal of this as weird and poorly written--and much of it is--I've been dealing mainly with the last one. I can exhort you now to learn about your institution. It's not the biggest news, but go comb through the Crimson archives and find out that students picketed for hot breakfasts in the '70s, that a Funk Concert Happening did it in your earhole in Dunster a decade...
Trouble was, it was a difficult line to swallow. Gates as a fuzzy-headed amnesiac? This is the man revered even by the geniuses who roam Microsoft's Redmond, Wash., campus for his awesome "bandwidth" (geekspeak for intelligence). Gates' memory is so capacious that at age 11, he astounded friends and family by memorizing all 107 verses of the Sermon on the Mount. He's so driven and detail oriented that he favors baths over showers so he can study while he soaks. Besides, it's hard to imagine the lackadaisical Gates of the video taking Microsoft from three employees...
...plane home from the Bahamas to tend a mongrel with a bad kidney. She favored wigs. Chicago fed off such stuff as the mystery remained unsolved and theories proliferated. One was that the handyman did it and put the corpse through a meat grinder. Another: that she was an amnesiac living in the South Seas. There were sightings of her everywhere (she disappeared six months before Elvis Presley). A year after she went missing, a spray-painted sign appeared near her 18-room house: RICHARD BAILEY KNOWS WHERE MRS. BRACH'S BODY IS! STOP...
...example of Ms. H., a 40-year-old amnesiac unable to recall incidents even moments after they happen, shows the healing power that this new understanding of the brain has given...
Edward and the monstrously self-absorbed Margaret deserve each other. She is perilously forgetful, almost amnesiac, it's difficult to see her successfully completing an undergraduate thesis, far less a dissertation and a subsequent book. The book which has brought her such acclaim, "The Anatomy of Madame de Montigny," has been embraced by the lit-crit crowd as a "a precursor of post-modern bricolage" which establishes her on the literary circuit...