Word: forget
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recollections. I'm just at the beginning of the separation-from-home process. i have not yet experienced the feelings of abandonment and loneliness which accompany any leave-taking and which are sometimes resolved in those sudden attachments to other freshmen. I am preoccupied with questions. Will my family forget about me? Will my sisters get all of my parents' love and attention? Is there anybody out there like...
...part, I hope Southerners (white and black) don't forget the suffering, the defeat, the injustice of Southern history, or the courage it took to endure and throw some of it off. We Americans can use that remembering. It might remedy our rootlessness, our disdain for limits. And it might free us for change...
...Angeles the only game in town seems to be talking about "getting your head together" and then never doing it. In New York it's fashionable to decry the physical deterioration of "landmark" buildings and then forget about them on the way to your air-conditioned office. But in Charleston, S.C., citizens' groups have restored entire blocks to antebellum splendor...
...elected, the legislature voted in favor of a tax hike, and House Speaker Albert Brewer visited the Governor to commiserate "because you'll have to veto it." Brewer later recalled: "He looked at me in silence for a moment and said, 'I'll just holler nigger and everybody will forget it.' And he did. And they did." In his 1963 inaugural speech, Wallace proclaimed: "Segregation now?segregation tomorrow?segregation forever." But on a November weekend ten years later, Wallace crowned a black homecoming queen at the University of Alabama, then told a black mayors' meeting in Tuskegee...
...unfairly changed the way some people view black doctors. As long as insensitive statements such as Davis's suggestion that a student "might leave a swath of unnecessary deaths behind him" are remembered, then some people will have lingering doubts about black physicians. We can only hope that people forget his intemperate remarks and that they do not leave any permanent scars...