Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quakers are probably the best quintet in the Ivy League, and there are two reasons for their supremacy: Jeff Neuman and Ramon Carazo. This hustling backcourt combination put on a show last Saturday that almost made the 1000 fans in the IAB forget about Bill Bradley. Carazo punched holes in the Crimson's usually effective zone defense with high, arching 25-foot jumpers, while Neuman left the fans exophthalmic with his ball-handling wizardry...
...Presidential succession law ought to be changed now, but if it proves impossible to enact an amendment at this session, Sen. Bayh and his allies should keep trying. The country has learned how important the Presidential succession law is; it should not forget the lesson...
...newspapers, our schools, is that good things are cheapened, become cliches. Take Marx. Now we have all our Marxism in formulas like chemistry or math. All answers to all problems. But if you have a book by Salinger and a book by Marx you'll read Salinger. People forget that Marx really said things. About man, about contact between people, about a better society...
...Sculpture is the most absorbing thing I've ever done. I'll never forget the day my assistant looked up and said, 'What about a cup of coffee?' I said, 'What about lunch instead?' 'What lunch?' he said. 'It's 6 o'clock.' Anyone can see that in the last four or five years I was quieting down, getting richer and quieter in my work: this was sculpture beginning to tap me on the shoulder...
...Pooped to Swim. Anyone who has ever hooked into a bonefish will never forget that moment. The first touch of steel sends Albula vulpes racing away in water-spraying terror, ripping off 100 yds. or more of line, straightening hooks, breaking swivels, or maybe snarling the whole shebang around a clump of mangroves. A little six-pounder can snap an 8-lb.-test line, and a big one takes all the luck an angler can muster. Recalls Golfer Sam Snead, who set a class record that still stands by catching a 15-pounder in 1953: "I was using live shrimp...