Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dwight Eisenhower was the first President to allow verbatim quotation of his press conferences, and got an eight-year kidding for his sprawling syntax. Now it turns out that John Kennedy can also forget just where and how a sentence got started. In fact, it is a little hard to guess which President said what...
Last week the 21 members of the Board of Parish Education voted unanimously to forget the whole idea. "At the time the course was projected," explained Dr. Arthur H. Getz, a member of the board, "it may have been timely to stress the difference between Roman Catholicism and Lutheranism, but more recently the emphasis has been upon conversations between the two faiths, and stress is being laid upon understanding each other...
...union hit the bricks, U.A.W. and S.P. negotiators have both stood their ground. All this was no Lark to South Bend, whose economy spins around Studebaker-Packard. Also somber were the parting words of Sherwood Egbert as he left for a brief business trip to Europe: "Don't forget, the labor problem is not our only problem...
...dusty sport shirt was inappropriate for the occasion, rushed off to find a jacket and tie. When he returned, his tipsy words of welcome were: "I have been diddling around all day to ensure that these generators serve the population. In about three days or three weeks, I forget which, we shall have light again. It has meant a lot of work but, by God, I have to run the province...
...whatever the theoretically proper thing to do, the great world powers are simply not capable of acting together on issues like Goa or the Congo. The Cold War and their own conflicting interests cripple them. Thus, Lord Home's eagerness to discredit an admittedly flawed United Nations makes him forget that it is the only instrument the world has at the moment. In the Congo, it may even be succeeding in establishing peace--which is surely more than any great power action there could do. (Parenthetically, one hopes that Kennedy will ask him why his government, which...