Word: forget
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...know that this is not what Strasberg means or does. He is a great teacher, the kind who doesn't mold an actor but makes him discover simple things he has never really considered or important things he has forgotten." Jean-Paul Belmondo prefers to forget Strasberg. He attended one class, stayed ten minutes, and then stalked out, sniffing: "I'm not for that gimmick. For some, it may be useful, but I don't need...
...Statistics" [Sept. 8] reminds me of an observation by Sir Josiah Stamp (1880-1941), himself a player of the game: "The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases...
...They stand idle," says Soviet Humorist Boris Egorov without much humor, "because no one understands how they were built or how to operate them. There are no repairmen or instruction books." As for the Russian lucky enough to own a car, he can forget about mechanics if it breaks down; there are so few of them that the state requires anyone wanting a driver's license to be able to take apart the engine and make basic repairs himself...
...been largely responsible for keeping S.M.U. in the game. Accelerating, turning, shifting speed with deceptive ease, he ran the Texas defenders into angry exasperation. But at the end he was so exhausted that he cannot remember any of :hose final seconds. No one who saw lim can forget. He ran a kickoff back 24 yds. to the A. & M. 42 and caught a pass from Perez that was good for 29 yds. more. Finally, with S.M.U. on the A. & M. six, and only four seconds left, Levias ran a "curlin" pattern that he and Perez had practiced "about...
When they get together, Africa's leaders are great talkers. When they return home, however, they too often seem to forget what the talk was all about. Last week, at the fourth "summit conference" of the Organization of African Unity in the Congolese capital of Kinshasa, heads of state from 18 African nations passed a number of resolutions that could go far toward bringing order to the Continent-if anything is ever done about them. One of the main achievements of the conference was that the chiefs were able to assemble...