Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Kansas. Earl Browder was born in Wichita, 47 years ago. He never lets himself or his public forget it. Without a paternal grandfather who fought the British in the War of 1812, a father who begat six Middlewesterners, Comrade Browder might find it awkward to say, as he often does say: "Communism is 20th Century Americanism...
...precipices--not in smooth little aprons but in balls of white water which shoot far out into the air and then plummet downwards like rockets, leaving behind them long confetti-streamers which are lost below in dense clouds of mist. Down their in the flat valley, the river could forget this roaring nightmare and become a lazy serpent of varied greens; light greens where the bright sands lay near the surface, shading off perfectly into mysterious black-greens where the deep pools were...
...Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud begins with Freud's amiable observations on the common phenomenon of forgetting. Aside from its jawbreaking title (The Psychopathology of Everyday Life) this is homely and domestic stuff, telling about people who forget their keys, lock themselves out of rooms which-unconsciously -they do not want to enter, forget the names of people they pretend to like, and forget engagements they do not want to keep. In this universal comedy of psychological errors, typesetters drop words from headlines, proofreaders overlook absurd mistakes, genteel ladies make slips of the tongue which transform innocent sentences into...
...Presbyterian), the city of Edinburgh, football, his work as chaplain of the Canadian forces during the War. But almost everything taught him a lesson; when he could barely lift his arms after paddling a canoe on remote Lake Wanapitei, he found that "you don't forget what you learn through suffering." Only enjoyment that did not tempt him to moralize was listening to bagpipes. Whether he heard them in Edinburgh or in his family parlor, he gave himself up to wholehearted love for "the throbbing of the drones and the wild shriek of the chanter...
...Miss So-and-So came down from the North Shore and wore sophisticated black . . . . Miss Snitz, one of our most charming buds, was enjoying herself among the older people," etc. The whole evening--the music, the audience, the atmosphere--has a certain nostalgic pleasantness that the Vagabond can never forget...