Word: forgetability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right," he said. "It's got to be something great. Something no one will ever forget." His voice rose in pitch. "Something that transcends the normal, Christmas-as-usual giving of gifts that will be forgotten in a day or two. Gorgo, you're absolutely right. We have to find-The Great Bargain." The fixation had taken hold...
Memories of the day after Thanksgiving always fade by Christmas. You forget that horrible feeling that comes when your stomach reels under loads of ungodly amounts of food. Maybe its some primeval instinct to stock up for the long cold winter, but by Christmas we're all ready to go at it again. The key word remains 'gluttony...
...THOSE WHO forget the past are condemned to repeat it." Of all possible thinkers, of all possible quotations, these words of George Santayana appeared on a sign above Jim Jones's throne in the Guyanese jungle. After three days of trying to make sense of the People's Temple with traditional assumptions about American life, I found this the most astonishing irony, the most provocative and mysterious detail...
...hungering force of a dusky past (Hawthorne), or the explosive curse of vice (Faulkner). Similarly, when we look closely at Jones's life, neither it nor the midwest seems so blithely "normal." For Jones was half-Indian, and in the midwest in the '50s you were not allowed to forget that very long--you were an outsider. At age 18, Jones became a Maoist and made the intellectual synthesis on which he would build his church: that religion is indeed the opium of the people, yet the people cannot live without opium--so what is needed, he concludes...
...will open her act in Tahoe, but she bristles at queries, about their private life. "Of course he lives with me. We eat at the same table." A body guard is close by for those occasions when crowds become "too pushy. You cannot imagine how people forget their manners. I've had fans trap me in elevators...