Word: forget
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took another sip of gin and finished the note to Tom. "And remember, I will always love you-Helen." Below her signature she scrawled, "Don't forget to give Dick his vitamins," and her eyes welled with tears at the thought of how sorry they would be and how sad it all was. Then she pinned the note carefully to her black cocktail dress, took a handful of pills, turned on all the lights, and composed herself on the sofa. As the darkness swept over her, she was thinking: "What if he has to work late...
...they set out, "holding high the Red-covered quotations of Chairman Mao, and with revolutionary vigor vowed: 'To make revolution, we must take the most arduous road!' " During the first ten days, the rain poured down and their ankles grew swollen. In order to forget the pain, they chanted: "A thousand mountains, 10,000 rivers are nothing," an old Long Marching song. Despite fatigue they found time in four major cities and 17 counties "to help people with their household work and production, in line with Chairman Mao's teachings and the fine working style...
University of Michigan are demanding to be heard on academic policies, faculty tenure and educational philosophy. Princeton students sit on academic committees, recently won the right to audit courses, take the final examination, get credit if they pass, forget it if they fail. Some 800 students at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., last week burned cardboard replicas of proposed campus buildings to protest the sterile modern architecture. Students at the City University of New York staged a sit-in to demand a voice in administrative decisions, but President Buell Gallagher insisted that they were asking too much...
...followed the ideological clamor of the '30s. But Dos Passos can now be regarded as an essential historian of an era-not a great novelist but a greater taker of notes playing the unwelcome role of a man who repeats things that others have said and would rather forget. It may seem old hat today, but it is a hat that many Americans have worn. Dos Passos may well claim to have been consistent in the oldfashioned, cranky Yankee way of distrusting all ideologies, of resisting all managerial systems that claim to improve...
...Nazis who are developing atomic rockets for the Egyptians. It is soon apparent that Rothberg is retelling the history of the Diaspora in this century. Not only has Nissim experienced the full horror of Hitlerism and the hardships of an Israeli pioneer; he is also a man who cannot forget. Indeed, to Nissim, total recall is not a talent but an obsession. He sees himself as an avenger for his people, both defender and violator of his ancient faith, a kind of Jewish Everyman to his generation and his times...