Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organize humanity without a God and without a king," cried Premier Jules Ferry, and in 1880 the Third Republic began passing the laws out of which France's public schools were born. It was an old passion with anticlerical Frenchmen, who could not forget the clergy flocking to support King Louis XVIII (1814-24) and the Bourbon restoration. The government ordered a new curriculum that was stripped of all religious overtones...
...specifically was overdue. U.S. imports are still restricted by quotas and high tariffs; e.g., Britain's tariffs and purchase taxes are so high that only 200 U.S. cars were imported last year. But the climate is changing. Says Common Market President Walter Hallstein: "We do not forget that the U.S. tolerated discrimination against its trade as a way of helping European recovery. Now that Europe has recovered, we certainly are not going to discriminate against...
...Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History, repeated his cyclical theory of politics. According to Schlesinger, the new decade will be "one of the exciting and creative epochs in our history." "The politics of the Fifties were.... the politics of fatigue," he wrote, adding, "The people wanted any excuse to forget public affairs...
...this striving we do not forget that in the eyes of millions in older lands, our America is still young, in some respects, is still on trial...
...Whitehead and Wittgenstein, both of whom the author knew well, Russell tells something of the life as well as the ideas of the hundred-odd philosophers who have helped to make the mind of the West. Says he: "The current trend towards more and fiercer specialisms is making men forget their intellectual debts to their forbears...