Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hope Mr. Eisenhower will not forget to invite Mr. Khrushchev to church...
...Presidents as being somewhat heedless of time and the proprieties. The classic case of this mutual difficulty came early in the nation's history, when Gilbert Stuart first set George Washington on canvas. "Now, sir," Stuart cheerily began as he took up his brush, "you must let me forget that you are General Washington and that I am Stuart the painter!" The President's bone-chilling rejoinder: "Mr. Stuart need never feel the need of forgetting who he is or who General Washington...
...that Leonard Bernstein was not likely to forget-nor would his audience. In Moscow last week, for the fourth of 18 Russian concerts scheduled for the world-touring New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Lenny celebrated his 41st birthday by shattering Soviet musical tradition, and except for a little official sniping, came away unscathed, a hero...
Historian Webb sees the country's next frontier in the South. "Forget the misfortune and injustice of the past," he told the Texas Council for Social Studies last June. "If I could, I would convince the Southern people that their future is brighter than it has ever been in history. The South is the one region whose resources have been largely undeveloped and unexploited. It is not only possible but it is also probable that this next century will belong to the South...
...honor of a nation. Postwar German courts absolved the plotters of treason, and each July 20, German newspapers have published eulogies of the conspirators. But the old argument about unquestioning loyalty in wartime lived on among diehard anti-July 20 officers, while the rest of the country preferred to forget the incident along with everything else connected with the last years of Hitler. Finally, last March, President Theodor Heuss delivered a speech before the Bundeswehr Officer Training Academy of Hamburg in which he flatly declared the July 20 plot to be part of the Bundeswehr's "new tradition...