Word: forget
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowded field, especially given Iowa's distressed farm economy. The difference is that second-tier candidates are all vying for the support of organized labor, which is unflinching in its protectionist fervor. That is why Gephardt stands to gain from the trade fight in Congress. Labor is unlikely to forget that Hart strongly opposed an earlier version of the Gephardt amendment when he was in the Senate. His detailed proposals on trade, which range from modifications in the antitrust laws to a new international accord on exchange rates, are still ideas in search of a constituency. Yet even Hart sometimes...
...realize or, in many cases, appreciate. To a remarkable extent, his life has been led in public, his up-and-down and then up-again-and-down- again career a long-running soap opera that played on all the networks. The ubiquitous male lead was regularly humiliated (Who can forget the Checkers episode in 1952 or the "last press conference" in 1962?), but he always bounced back, a new Nixon, ready for another crisis that would again display his anguish before a dumbfounded public...
...receiving "so much love that I forget myself" perhaps for Greaves and Rader the ideal romantic relationship is one characterized by self-love and continuous concern only for oneself. This seems to me hardly the picture of a healthy relationship; on my view, love begins at the moment when the well-being of the other becomes an independent value. This is certainly a form of "forgetting" oneself, but in no way a vicious one. Only through this sort of "forgetfulness" is it possible to be conscious of others in the most profoundly empathetic way, and this deep connection is completely...
...other hand, the idea that violence against women is a form of "forgetting" is quite a claim to make with any argument. Greaves and Rader argue that romantic self-effacement "is systematically linked" to the violation of a woman who is raped, because "both are results of a culture which condones the subjugation of women." Exactly what systematic link is being postulated here? A causal one? Surely they don't mean to say that women who "forget themselves" romantically are more likely to be raped or harassed. The continuing violence against women indicates--among other things--an irrational fear...
...other matter, the song goes on to reassure us, "Nothing seems to hurt me when I'm close to you." We imagine that the rape victims supported at the march might have a different view of "closeness" with men! Furthermore, the message "Give me so much love that I forget myself" is hardly a message which empowers women. Since violence against women is precisely an act of "forgetting," or negating, the existence of another to advocate the "forgetting" of oneself through love, at least in this context, is to point up a central feature of patriarchal culture: the required self...