Word: forget
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bail them out. "What has come over you, friend?" asked the Baghdad daily Sawt al-'Arab. "You made us promises, and now that the time has come to fulfill them, you evade. We shall thank you, friend, because you have taught us a lesson we shall never forget...
...Nancy Davison, 24, a somewhat younger, prettier festival queen. She swung the champagne. Bonk! Nothing happened. Thrice more she smote to no avail until the kindly Mayor said, "Give me that please." Whereupon he swung from the toenails, lost his grip, and hurled the champagne into the Hudson River. "Forget it," sighed Lindsay. "At least I hit the ship," said Nancy...
...wanted to learn more about economics, basic to all our foreign policy interests and involvements, and be able to better relate them to political and security considerations. I also felt that if the private sector didn't commit more of its resources to the development effort, you could forget about closing the gap between the rich northern nations and the poor southern ones. So I audited courses in development theory at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and courses in practical international involvement by free enterprise at the Business School. With this preparation, my idea was to find...
...often Mumford sounds like a narrow literary intellectual, or he ignores obvious holes in his theories. It is provincial today to say "language is the great container of culture." What about other forms of communication-music? painting? mathematics? Mumford describes kings as the first technological totalitarians-but tends to forget that kings could rule only from bases of commonly held beliefs and aspirations. How does Mumford know that "mil lennia passed [after Paleolithic man] before man would take the life of his own kind in cold blood...
...modern Luddites, this may seem like an attractive idea. But man had that chance 5,000 years ago and muffed it. Mumford may as well forget that fantasy and address himself to the real problem: how to plug the megamachine into the circuitry of 20th century hopes...