Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strategy was ill-conceived and poorly executed; if Wilson has any thoughts of using the high post against Yale tonight, he'd better forget them. The Elis could have beaten Harvard by 20 points last night...
...TIME'S cover a few months after Stalin's death, as head of the Economic Reform Program, again-and still-struggling with the perennially sagging Soviet economy. Soviet Russia is always ready to create heroes, as in the case of the cosmonauts, and always ready to forget them-if not physically remove them from their tombs. One of TIME'S Russia covers presented famed Shock Worker Alexis Stakhanov (Dec. 16, 1935) who was then being celebrated as a Hero of Labor. "Pass the champagne," the story quoted him, "for our last drink." He has long since disappeared...
...What Underwear!" Communists even show a certain pride in genteel Chekhovian shabbiness. Restaurant tablecloths are almost always slightly soiled, but clean oilcloth is distinctly nekulturny. Hotel maids may forget to remove dead cockroaches, but they never fail to dust the chandelier and the grand piano. Only at the ballet does the Russian's old love of flashing hues and sumptuous textures seem to come into its own. Even women's underwear at lingerie counters is coarse and drab, prompting a visiting French Communist's classic comment: "What under wear! Yet what a birth rate...
...Falk's Stalin is a menacing thug with a will of granite, but Luther Adler's Lenin is too mellow and self-questioning for the single-minded intellectual doctrinaire who could be just as implacable as Stalin. To recreate the rationale of tyranny should not be to forget that for men like Lenin and Stalin, power is its own reward...
...Years of success in international competitions have given Americans delusions of grandeur where sports are concerned. We expect to win everything and are alarmed when we don't. We forget that in the Olympics it is America against all the other nations of the world, and that in many events we are trying to buck others at their own game. For example, these were the first Olympics to have racing on a small sled which the French called a luge, the Germans a rodel and the English a toboggan, which it isn't. Ours was a pickup team...