Word: forget
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First: We quite often forget now the belt-tightening period in 1960, when we had to initiate a no-hire-no-fire policy to cut the fat from municipal operations. We re-organized a number of city departments over the 8 years; we combined the Health and Hospital Departments which has set an example for America, an example which has now been emulated in half a dozen cities; we created the new Public Facilities Department (this I think is one of the most significant reorganizations we have made); and we reorganized the Assessing Department. We made a number of other...
...ever met Thomas Wolfe was likely to forget the force of his personality. A hearty clasp of his huge paw could mean considerable pain to the hand he had shaken. And no reader of his novels, whatever the reservations about their real worth, could easily forget their impact. That is part of the trouble that confronts Biographer Andrew Turnbull. In his conversations, which were really monologues, and in his novels, notably Look Homeward, Angel and The Web and the Rock, Wolfe spilled it all. His autobiographical heat and drive, the boiling response of his senses, are the substance...
Electrified by Gaby's disclosure, the great powers on earth forget old antagonisms and focus their attention on the distant civilization, hoping to learn from it the secrets of peace and abundance. Alas, the path toward Cassiopeia-and utopia-is made virtually impassable by man's follies. Oppenheimer-like and Teller-like scientists have a falling-out, Advise and Consent politicians undermine each other, the authenticity of the Cassiopeia message is questioned, and the powers again turn toward holocaust. The disillusioned Gaby dies, unaware that he will eventually be vindicated by none other than the Chinese Communists...
During most of next week you many enjoy skiing vicariously in the warmth of your own room. Many of the major skiing events of the Winter Olympics are being televised. So forget the frozen feet, score legs and runny nose, and tune in to Channel...
Unless his name happens to be Sophocles, the best thing a playwright can do with the Oedipus complex is to forget it. Purporting to explain the irreconcilable clash of son with father, the Oedipus complex, dramatically speaking, tends to reduce conflict to impasse. This is both the substance of-and the trouble with-Robert Anderson's new Broadway play, I Never Sang for My Father. Sometimes poignant, sometimes sentimental, always earnest, it essentially presents a static emotional impasse...