Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guys around here about to turn blue," the NASA communicator radioed to Eagle "We're breathing again." A little later, Houston added: "There's lots of smiling faces in this room, and all over the world." "There are two of them up here," responded Eagle. "And don't forget the one up here," Collins piped in from the orbiting Columbia...
...weekend, we are indeed the inhabitants of a new era. But, contrary to what they said, that era began sometime ago. We have grown accustomed to our world of ultimatums and extremes. And when we choose to live, we choose to live in one kingdom so entirely, that we forget the possibilities alive in neighboring realms. We may be more open, more frank, but we have lost the ability to taste simultaneously conflicting passions. In such a world, pathos is rare, when found it is priceless. For pathos, at its best, is the commingling of pleasure and pain, of laughter...
...hard murder to forget. Thirty-eight people passively watched as a man stalked, stabbed and killed Kitty Genovese, 28, in the predawn darkness of the Kew Gardens section of New York City five years ago. All heard her screams; none came to her aid. Since then, the paralysis of the innocent by stander has spurred psychologists to in vestigate man's unfortunate proclivity for playing the Bad Samaritan...
...much. As soon as I got home, I unnerved myself from two months of Cambridge with a bottle of wine and ten hours' sleep. As soon as I regained consciousness I grabbed a copy of Portnoy and tried to forget about the vagaries of scholarship I'd been pursuing and bury myself pleasurably in the contemporary experience...
N.A.A.C.P. is so well established an abbreviation that many forget that the "C" stands for "colored." Negroes preferred to be called that 60 years ago, when the association was founded; "black" was then an insult. For many Negroes today, the connotations have been reversed, as has some of the thrust for the traditional goal of integration. But the N.A.A.C.P. is an institution, and one that holds fast to nomenclature and aspiration...