Word: forgetful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stature. Painful as it may be for the millions who admired him as a ballplayer, he should be punished as severely as an objective hearing may determine he deserves. It would help enormously if he would admit his compulsion and seek rehabilitative help. Perhaps then the nation could forget about Rose the Gambler and go back to its once well-justified admiration of Charlie Hustle...
Husbands, it's 10 a.m. Do you know where your wives are? Selling real estate? Processing words? Marauding the malls? Forget it. Every weekday morning in Pennington, N.J., an upscale village of 2,200 about halfway between New York City and Philadelphia, a number of busy wives and a sprinkling of single women put aside all thoughts of jobs, husbands and children to gather for what has become a new style women's club. In the aerobic dance classes at the local Jazzercise center, women are talking about who's hot on the silver screen, trading bargain tips and supporting...
...Forget watching other athletes compete, you say. You want to be part of the action...
...amnesia, the disorder of advanced electronic societies, is not the only possible derangement of national memory. There are cultures that remember nothing and cultures that forget nothing. Forgetting nothing might be worse. Remembering nothing produces a mere mindless, stumbling insouciance. Forgetting nothing produces paralysis and death...
Beirut's warring factions, for example, have a prodigious capacity for remembering injury. So too the Northern Irish, whose Protestants celebrate the Battle of the Boyne -- next year is the 300th anniversary -- as if it took place yesterday. The inability to forget, to let the slate be wiped clean, freezes societies in anachronism and turns blood feuds into endless civil...