Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...importing and improving U.S. business techniques, have advanced to a new high (or low) state. They have taken to one business practice that has been on the wane in the U.S.: the office Christmas party. The Japanese, who learned the tradition from American occupation forces, call them bohnenkai (forget-the-year parties), and they work diligently at drowning the past in a torrent of alcohol during two weeks of nightly Christmastime revelry with geishas, models and strippers...
...bottle a day at 5 cr. (3?) a shot from your wife. If you live another ten years and then drop dead, your widow will have 115,200 cr. [$606.31] in the bank-enough to raise the kids, pay off the mortgage, marry a good man and forget that she ever knew a drunken bum like...
...prerogative to sing for the here and now; it is his job. If the simplicity and straightforwardness of style catches some off balance, perhaps they would be better off considering the intricate skill of his arrangements, which bring out the simple lines of the songs. One must not forget that men like Scruggs and Hopkins are also "interpreting," and not just repeating. Seeger, in "making music his" has helped make it meaningful...
...disagreed on researcher vs. teacher, there was a consensus that the appeal of a good teacher was not only intellectual, but moral. They retained not so much the content of the lecture or course, but the style of thought and behavior of the teacher: "You're always going to forget what they say to you ... but you can never forget his love and his devotion for it, this you will never forget. At times you can recall some of the intensity with which he discussed the subject. Then you will be bound to do this on your own. You know...
McCurdy got some supervising early-season performances out of some of his heroes. The coach put Marty Beckwith, The team's top high jumper, in the broad jump, where he could forget about high jumping and his forthcoming match with B.U.'s John Thomas...