Word: forget
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Forget Democracy...
...evil." Possibly the transcendent nature of both religion and war encourages an especially lethal kind of fanaticism. As Shinn says, "War is one of the few occasions when people are asked to give of themselves in a cause that is greater than self. People are asked to forget self - and human nature rises and falls to the occasion...
This is a wonderful little bicentennial piece: America has no real poverty (forget about inner cities and blue collar unemployment above ten per cent), has never practiced anything so crude as "genocide" (forget what intellectuals who must run every newspaper and news service in America told you about Viet Nam), and is in the midst of a "Happiness Explosion," at least for the ordinary Joe and Jill...
...food, and sometimes get bitten by the bug and join up. The historic sort of leisure exerts a unique pull on the mind. Wagonmaster Keith Kreykes, 52, a cook, in the course of the journey has headed up as many as 48 wagons carrying up to 150 people. "You forget what day it is, and you forget the time pressure," says his wife Gale, 54. "You can live each day to its fullest...
...into Soweto last week (whites were still barred) said that people were shocked and sullen, aghast at the death toll and destruction of most of their social facilities and schools. "They may not challenge white authority openly again for some time," said a black businessman, "but they will never forget what has happened. Their anger is now deep and permanent. Unless the whites change their policy, there is bound to be another explosion-and another and another...