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...Nation is important because “Film is our global vocabulary. And it’s a language that cuts across all cultures…America is a culture of amnesia, and to me, a lot of issues pop up precisely because of that; the more we forget history, the more it seems to come back and haunt...
...themselves in concentrations that often inundate them with esoteric and confusing writing standards that are supposedly unique to that field. One English concentrator even reported at the Curricular Review meeting that he was told in some concentration courses that in order to write well he should “forget everything [he] learned in Expos.” While different disciplines differ in their stylistic expectations, good writing tends to share core elements regardless of the subject...
...themselves in concentrations that often inundate them with esoteric and confusing writing standards that are supposedly unique to that field. One English concentrator even reported at the Curricular Review meeting that he was told in some concentration courses that in order to write well he should “forget everything [he] learned in Expos.” While different disciplines differ in their stylistic expectations, good writing tends to share core elements regardless of the subject...
...Atal Bihari Vajpayee, lauded for its bold economic reforms, suffered a shocking defeat at the polls, partly because of resentment from the poor that they were missing out on the boom. Into office came a government that needed the support of the Communists, and which had promised not to forget those at the bottom of the heap...
...Should anyone care if a country's method for dealing with its inconvenient history and unjustly disgraced leaders is to try to forget them? Are there consequences in failing to heed George Santayana's warning that those who ignore history are destined to repeat...