Word: amnesiaize
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...Arabs for mistreatment of their own populations. Hardly anyone seems to remember or even know that three years ago the armed forces of Syrian President Assad sealed off the city of Aleppo and massacered upwards of 10,000 people protesting against the government. The world displays a curious amnesia when it comes to the atrocities of Israel's neighbors...
...nervous, winced even at the mention of their names. Ex-Foreign Minister Ribbentrop looked broken and old, with a hurt, petulant look on his frozen face. Best show of austere indifference was given by former Chief of the Supreme High Command Wilhelm Keitel. Rudolf Hess, now officially pronounced an amnesia victim, was the most morose-looking of all, his green-tinged skin drawn tightly about his cadaverous skull. He tried to pass the time by reading Bavarian folk tales, but was much disturbed by stomach cramps, which made him rock back & forth on his bench...
...called pacification law was the third attempt by the military to impose national amnesia. Last November it disingenuously urged Argentines to show "greatness of spirit" so as to "attain national unity." Translation: the next civilian government should refrain from investigating military crimes. That clumsy ploy was ridiculed into oblivion. Last April the junta tried again, publishing a "final document" in which it simply declared that those who disappeared were legally and administratively dead. Explaining that any "excesses" committed by the government were purely in the line of duty, the government did not bother even to account for individual cases. Again...
This summer, the two men plan to prepare a journal article about the project, which grew out of a paper the pair wrote on childhood amnesia in 1979 while Pillemer was a graduate student of White's at the School of Education. Examining Freud's claim that memories of childhood cannot go further back than about age seven, the article discussed two distinct kinds of memory. "Flashbulb memories"--a term coined by White's colleague Roger W. Brown, Lindsley Professor of Psychology--consist of pictures of whatever a person is looking at when he gets intensely excited. Script memories...
...Pillemer explains, "One way to study amnesia, rather than studying it as an absence of memory, is to ask why do people remember those few things they remember very well. That might be where you were and what you were doing when you first learned about an assassination or it might be when you first walked into your freshmen college dorm. Learning about why these particularly salient memories last over years with very little apparent loss of clarity might suggest more about that transition in general...