Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assets is an impressive one. In a campaign which undoubtedly will be dominated--if the Republicans have their way--by foreign affairs, he has a distinguished record. His appointment to the south Vietnamese post by President Kennedy was, in effect, a bipartisan recognition of this fact. And few will forget his highly successful years as ambassador to the United Nations...
...Philip Heckscher is excellent in his two small parts, as are Arthur Friedman and Peter Weil as Lancaster and Warwick. They shout too much sometimes, but they pace their dialogues briskly and well. Mark Bramhall, Michael Sargent, and David Evett also play with distinction. Other minor characters tend to forget their blocking or to overact...
...Lord Palmerston said, "Only three men have ever understood it. One was Prince Albert, who is dead; the second was a German professor who went mad. I am the third, and I have forgotten all about it." Forceful Tampering. Diplomats at the U.N. would be equally happy to forget all about the Cyprus problem, which last week was returned to the Security Council after U Thant's failure to provide a solution through backstage jockeying. The Greek Cypriots, led by their President, Archbishop Makarios, stubbornly insist that any draft resolution contain a reminder that all U.N. members must refrain...
After a near-fatal illness that cost $21,911.32 and 160 days in three hospitals, Eric Hodgins might pardonably have tried to forget it. Instead, he set out to write off his losses. The result, Episode - Report on the Accident Inside My Skull (Atheneum; $5), is Journalist Hodgins' wry, spry, keenly observed sto ry of a stroke (cerebrovascular accident) and how it has affected his life for the past four years...
...matter where he is, Harrington never lets you forget that he is a socialist iconoclast. His speech is spiced with phrases like "our quaint little economic system," "the good ol" American grass-roots system," and "pinch-penny politics." With tongue in check, he mentions "Barry Goldwater socialists"; a second later, he lashes out at the "great many people who profit from poverty in the United States." Always, he thinks in terms of an established structure which dominates not only politics, but all American society. "There is considerable institutional resistance to the 'War against Poverty.' The opposition is tenacious, but their...