Word: forget
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meselson did not feel that past discussion of chemical warfare and its consequences showed sufficient thought or maturity on the part of the military. "We are like children playing with matches, and tend to forget that the U.S. is the military pacesetter of the world. Should we decide to pioneer the use of germ, viral, and gas weapons, we might lead to their use in smaller countries...
...Christian reconciliation, invited East and West Germany's 54 bishops, archbishops and cardinals to attend the ceremonies in Czestochowa next May marking the 1,000th anniversary of the conversion of Poland's King Mieczyslaw I. Wrote the Polish churchmen: "We grant forgiveness and ask forgiveness. Let us forget. No polemics. No more cold...
...they are so quick to advance when it is pointed out, for example, that Negroes commit a disproportionately large number of violent crimes. They can understand -- although not forgive -- the Negro's propensity to commit crimes, but they can only denounce the Irish-American for his racial prejudice. They forget that a tendency toward casual bigotry, as much as one toward violent crime, can be a result of an unfortunate environment; and that in American society the roles of Oppressed and Oppressor are usually intertwined within single persons and groups...
...with which Wheeler has chosen to end the play haven't even the dramatic intensity of the Workers' decision to "Strike! Strike!" at the conclusion of Waiting for Lefty. As far as I could tell, the entire production was geared to a sort of "Lest We Forget" sentiment, complete with a quote from William L. Shirer in the program notes. Such a sentiment is hardly enough to motivate a dramatic experience, and it is dangerous for other reasons, I think -- because of its tendency (in plays like The Diary of Anne Frank) to blur into something than can only...
...achieve a really first-rate bad movie status; in fact it probably will become the classic example to future generations. There is, one supposes, some value in this. But at any rate don't buy the glossy expensive Is Paris Burning souvenir booklet sold during intermission. You couldn't forget this film if you tried--and you will...