Word: forget
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what Leary calls "the convenient whipping boy" for many of society's ills. All things considered, it is almost a miracle that American cops, who receive little respect from anybody for perhaps the toughest job in the U.S., are as good as they are. "It is too easy to forget," says University of Chicago Sociologist Jerome Skolnick, "that police are only people," with the same frustrations and prejudices that others of similar backgrounds might have. "No matter what people call you," says Patrolman Kasaras, "you're supposed to contain yourself." The young policeman, adds Reddin, "deals with filth, the dregs...
...Then she said, "Hey, let's play 'May I.'" On a forthcoming record, a group called the Salt Water Taffy chants Sticks & Stones: Nothing you could say could ever make me leave her. . . . Save your breath 'cause I'm ignoring, But don't forget it's me that's scoring...
...just as confused as anybody else. Maybe more so: listen to what a lady I know told me about her good friend Gianni Agnelli, the Italian motor magnate. "When he even fleetingly wants something," she said, "he buys it. But I think this is simply because he wants to forget that he wanted something he didn't have...
...paid his dues." And several essayists, without even the leavening grace of black humor, dryly accuse Styron's Turner of lacking rhythm in his speech. In fact, these black literary jurors are so outraged that a white man should dare to write about a black, they forget that perhaps the best portrait of a Negro woman in American literature was drawn by Gertrude Stein in Melantha...
...result is that in most productions, Tristan and Isolde are lovers who seem to forget that they have bodies. Sometimes the audience wishes it could forget too, in view of the age and bulk of most singers who are up to the demands of the vocal score. Not even the composer's innovation-minded grandson, Wieland Wagner, could change this. His productions introduced heavy hints of Freudian psychology, but the lovers' bond remained shrouded in symbolism. It all seemed to bear out Wagner's advice to Nietzsche that to get the most out of the opera...