Word: forget
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...planned to audit Fine Arts 13 this semester, forget it. 415 students--80 more than last year--have signed up for the course so far and there are only 398 seats in the Fogg Norton Lecture Hall...
Violence, Rap Brown observed, "is as American as cherry pie." History that most whites would rather forget supports him. Quite aside from the Ku Klux Klan's brand of oppression in the South, Northern whites rampaged against Negroes in riots in New York City; Springfield, Ohio; Greensburg, Ind.; Springfield, Ill.; East St. Louis, Ill.; and Detroit long before Negro upheavals came into vogue. The U.S. Civil Rights Commission counted 2,595 lynchings of Negroes in Southern states between 1882 and 1959. Not one resulted in a white man's conviction. Den nis Clark, writing in the Jesuit magazine...
...truth is that such disasters as the Battle of Chicago are easily avoided by granting the demonstrators' legitimate demands, such as rallying in parks, and smothering the affair in a soft blanket of civic disinterest. This takes official determination to forget the High Noon syndrome, ample communication with demonstration leaders and masses of calm cops who flood the premises, making sure that any violence is committed only by small groups of isolated, discredited protesters. When 25,000 anti-Castro Cubans wanted to picket the Republican Convention, for example, Miami Beach Police Chief Pomerance quietly diverted...
...17th century Dutch, his name means "the king," and no one in The Netherlands was about to let Painter Willem de Kooning forget it. Back in his homeland for the first time since he sailed to the U.S. as a deckhand in 1926, the 64-year-old abstract expressionist confessed, "I was afraid to come back, but I was wrong." Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum was aglow with 90 De Kooning oils, and idolizing crowds trailed him everywhere. The only problem was that he had forgotten his mother tongue. After U.S. Ambassador William Tyler addressed the opening-night crowd...
...apartment. Poster of a face holding four cards, the cards are held by a witch who mixes hands from the hand. To know Jeu Total you must know the mind of the player, the Witch of Changes. "A sullen, sleepy-eyed girl--someone really nasty." You won't forget the line when you hear...