Word: forget
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greater. Street fighting is as new to most correspondents as it is to most of the soldiers. By now, most journalists can handle themselves fairly well in the field: they know when to duck, when to run, what to listen for, when to dig. In the cities, however, we forget about ricochets and flying glass, about the ability of an enemy to pop out of a burning shack and then disappear. If you move too slowly, you get cut off from Allied troops, and it you go too quickly, you suddenly find yourself in the middle...
...dramatists plowing the Tennessee soil forget that Oedipus did not have a complex but a fate. Once analysis of motivation supplants action, the result is soporific drama, as exemplified this season by Anderson's I/ Never Sang for My Father and Chayefsky's The Latent Heterosexual. In contrast with the look-through transparency of these playwrights, Harold Pinter maintains a tantalizing and fascinating opacity in his characters. They are inexplicable and unpredictable as people in real life often...
...Nabokov's more sophisticated novels, an important theme is the nature of fiction itself. By putting his comic trio through a series of abstract stances-a modification of the futurist and expressionist influences that swept the arts in the '20s-he never allows the reader to forget that fiction is essentially artifice. In King, Queen, Knave, the artifice may be a little too obvious, but intelligence and wit keep it working smoothly to the end. Nabokov himself could well have been thinking of this "bright brute" when he described a certain variety of butterfly he once discovered...
...fork of "liberalization" that is jabbing all of Communist Europe these days has two prongs: "Cultural Freedom" and "Political Liberty." It is easy in an advanced capitalist country to forget sometimes how closely inter-related the two are. European Communist reformers, however, have never lost sight of this close connection--indeed, they sometimes disguise their political struggles as cultural ones...
...volunteer for shopping. We buy $20 worth of food for $18 (the merchants earlier had contributed food outright) and on the way back meet a gentleman who seems to belong to Drunken Faculty to Forget the Whole Mess. Someone whom I think of as a friend threatens to punch me because I am carrying food...