Word: forget
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ourselves in order to improve from within. Each of us has the choice to stop, reflect, and look within. And yet, we seem to throw this most precious choice away. In an academic environment where we tend towards the abstract, and we try to externalize and analyze, we often forget that real knowledge is incomplete without the knowledge of one's self...
THIS BOY'S LIFE by Tobias Wolff (Atlantic Monthly Press; $18.95). A vivid memoir of a bizarre upbringing, dwelling not on hardships but on the promise of awakening every morning in a vast land where people are prepared to forget the past and believe anything...
...Next round, he displayed a pair of Heavyhands, the weights Dukakis uses in speed-walking. In the critique sessions afterward, Ailes says, "Darman was great: warm, funny and very sharp." Bush agreed. Despite his earlier doubts about Darman's team spirit, the President-elect told his transition team to forget about a list of prospects for Budget Director; he knew who would serve him best. Darman was delighted. Now he can put off a new version of his book for what he hopes will be many years...
STILL, much of the show's banter is as boring and subtle as this exchange between a blitzed Senator Bedderly (Nevin Steinberg '89) and Agent Tess Tosterone: "You're drunk," she says. "And you're ugly," he retorts. And don't forget fat, an insult which finds its way into every other joke...
THIS BOY'S LIFE by Tobias Wolff (Atlantic Monthly Press; $18.95). A vivid memoir of a bizarre upbringing, dwelling not on hardships but on the promise of awakening every morning in a vast land where people are prepared to forget the past and believe anything...