Word: forget
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...article "Football as Erotic Ritual" [Nov. 13] is really the pits. Sexual symbolism and ritual could be applied to most any activity if that's your hangup. Give the jocks and their fans a break. Forget the kinky gimmicks...
...riflemen. "He was incredibly tenacious," Javers reported. "Then I saw him go down. And I saw one of the attackers stick a shotgun right into his face?inches away, if that. Bob's brain was blown out of his head. It splattered on the NBC minicam. I'll never forget that sight as long as I live. I ran, and then I dived head first into the bush and scrambled as far into the swamp as I could...
...even if Gaza finally achieves some kind of self-government, its leaders must still find ways of pacifying the dispossessed who dream of returning to their old homes in Israel. "We will have to provide them with places to live in Gaza to help them forget," says Mayor al-Shawa. "And we will have to convince them somehow that they have not moved away from Palestine, but have merely moved from one part of it to another...
...self-declared idol, Father Divine. Sun Myung Moon also comes to mind; but somehow the connection to more mainstream evangelists--the Billy Grahams and Oral Roberts of the world--does not seem so far off. We recoil from the terrible spectacle of California cults gone berserk, but manage to forget their antecedents, presumably because the more conventional, if hardly more genuine, religious-business organizations don't break the laws of propriety in such flamboyant ways...
...happy to see that it's still possible for a young man, operating under what remains of the free-enterprise system, to make a success of farming. However, let's not forget that this success is largely built on the increasing concentration of a limited and highly vital resource (land) in the hands of fewer and fewer individuals. Now I'm wondering how soon it will be before moated castles, surrounded by hovels for the serfs, begin to sprout on those precious acres...