Word: forget
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public looking for a public servant. Thus Gerald Ford probably did not think of himself as cynical but as merely plying his trade when he cautioned reporters not to judge how he would act in the White House on the basis of how he had voted in Congress. "Forget the voting record," he said. "The voting record reflects Grand Rapids...
...conviction of historical responsibility"--we get a whiff of the type of democracy he endorses:the cult of the intellectual, a noblesse not of the robe or the sword but of the word protecting the nation from the dragon of unreason that threatens political discourse. "Let intellectuals never forget that all they that take the word shall perish with the word," Schlesigner eloquently tells us, and as for the rest of society, well, let them eat paragraphs...
...future, Morres is not likely to forget that he is an Indian. "The reservation is not a lovely place to live," he says. "I wouldn't pick it. But that's where the need is right now, and that's where I'm going...
...lesson Americans learn as schoolchildren is that every vote is precious. It is a lesson Americans also easily forget. Despite the striking evidence of how much each vote does indeed count-John F. Kennedy won the presidency by a margin of .2% of the votes cast in 1960, and Richard Nixon by .7% in 1968-tens of millions of Americans still stay away from the polls. An estimated 38% of the eligible voters cast ballots in the election last November...
...modern playwrights, that madness is better than sanity; he only goes so far as to say that madness might be better than sanity, in some cases. In the end we feel sorrier for Dysart than the boy he has spiritually emasculated; Strang comes to love Big Brother and utterly forget that hating him is a much more intense and ennobling experience. Dysart must see himself as spitefully smothering flames in others that he longs for but can never ignite himself...