Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little bit more, threatens to tell her father about it unless Christine dismisses Brant. Out of this situation arises the first of Mourning Becomes Electra's four deaths. Tired of war, sick, wishing to patch it up with his wife, Ezra returns. It is hard for him to forget four years of carnage. "That's always been the Mannon's way of thinking," says he. "They went to the white meeting house on Sabbaths and meditated on death. Life was a dying. Being born was starting to die. Death was being born to live." As the next...
...been since a derby sat smartly on your head. Think how long it has been since you unfolded damask across your lap in sitting down to dinner. It is all very well to rusticate but it is not so fine to sink so deeply into country ways that you forget that Hanover is a very small town indeed and its customs very simple...
...order that his occasional sallies into Symphony Hall will not cause the Vagabond to forget that there are other men besides Ravel and Pierne who write music, he will go today at 12 to the Music Building, where Professor Ballantine will play and explain Opus 2, Part 2 of Beethoven's Sonatas. There is no greater biography of Beethoven than his own music, no greater music than Beethoven...
Debate in the National Assembly just before the bill passed was exciting. "Do not forget," shrilled Suffragette Senorita Clara Campoamor, "that you are all the sons of women! We are all equal by nature! The Spanish woman awaits her redemption by the Republic...
...balance. Banks throughout America have no balance upon which to tremble. Short days ago the financial structure of Germany was undermined and the nation with her back to the wall stared over a bleak world. Empires, dominions, age hallowed institutions, and fair names avail nothing. No man can forget the greatness of these items...