Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When I go into Mem Hall I forget everything anyhow...
...relatively small part-in Robert Rossen's movie The Hustler-but no one who has seen that fat man will forget him. A man of understated power, Minnesota Fats is played, curiously enough, by Jackie Gleason, and where audiences might have arrived expecting a million laughs from the most celebrated buffoon ever to rise through U.S. television, they leave with a single, if surprised, reaction: inside the master jester, there is a masterful actor. Gleason, the storied comedian, egotist, golfer, and gourmand, mystic, hypnotist, boozer and bull slinger, is now emerging as a first-rank star of motion pictures...
...white settlers-at the U.N.'s show of strength. "Photograph the tears. It's the tears you like, isn't it?" shrieked one weeping man to the foreign news photographers at work in the shell-torn streets. And the people of Elisabethville would never forget or forgive the bomb blasts that killed the innocent; a wild-eyed Belgian drove up to a group of foreign correspondents, shouting "Look, look at the work of the American gangsters!" In the back seat were two bloodied civilians and a dead child in its mother's arms...
...earnings. Then he sparred pleasantly with newsmen. Would he try to cut down on strike-outs (112 in 1961) next season? "That's been my goal for six straight years," said Mantle. "I haven't done much about it so far, so I'm gonna forget about it now." Last season, a reporter recalled, Mantle had promised to help Yankee Manager Ralph Houk win a pennant in his rookie year. What about Houk's second year? Answered Mantle: "He's on his own now." Did Mantle mind batting fourth in the Yankee order, behind Maris...
...Irishmen, forget the past And think of the day that is coming fast, When we shall all be civilized, Neat and clean, and well-advised, Oh, won't Mother England be surprised, Whack fol the diddle lol the dido...