Word: forgetability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nationwide television address last week, Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan appealed to Iranians to put aside "revenge, enmity and malevolence, forget the past and behave like brothers." There was good reason for the Prime Minister's plea: in an especially tense week in Iran, a former military chief of staff was assassinated, righting once again broke out among ethnic separatists, and police disarmed two men in what may well have been an attempt against Bazargan's life. Meanwhile, in an effort to consolidate the powers of his provisional government, the Prime Minister reshuffled his Cabinet and called...
Though the swami faces up to 20 years in a Swiss slammer, he is unrepentant and rejects the charges as part of the "filth spreading round the world." Whatever the law decides, placid Winterthur will not soon forget the time the cuckoos escaped from their clocks...
...consistent joys of '70s moviegoing has been Laurence Olivier's game, witty performances in otherwise terrible films. Even junk like The Betsy and The Boys from Brazil became memorable in his hands: Who could forget his parody of a Midwestern accent in the former or his rapturous cigarette smoking in the latter? Olivier is such a sly devil that he could make his Oscar acceptance speech, a riotous stream of sheer poppycock, sound as though it were a Shakespearean soliloquy. As TV audiences saw, it was enough to addle Fellow Oscar Winner Jon Voight's brain...
...serious moment Allen can bring up the interesting point that New York's chic artist culture may create its own neuroses so it won't have time to worry about true problems, like death. But we forget that and remember instead Allen's head filling the screen next to an ape's skull. He rants about the decline of morality to Murphy, then points to the simian and says, "In a few years we'll be like him--and he was probably one of the beautiful people...
There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge, and wisdom. Shall we, instead, choose death because we cannot forget our quarrels? We appeal, as human beings: Remember your humanity and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new paradise; if you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death...