Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...America is not sick. It is not just this country that is violent, or society in the 1960s. Pointing fingers at the U.S. is, seemingly, a favorite pastime in today's world, and the people from other countries who do it forget or ignore their own past. One need not enumerate the bloody history of England or France, the revolution of 1917 in Russia, the conquistadores of Spain, the banana republics of Latin America, the wars of independence in Africa, the dynastic wars in China, the long conflicts in Europe, to establish such an obvious truth...
...FORGET the democratic processes, the judicial system and the talent for organization that have long been the distinctive marks of the U.S. Forget, too, the affluence (vast, if still not general enough) and the fundamental respect for law by most Americans. Remember, instead...
...expect something better of the U.S. "Recourse to violence as a form of solving differences is one of the philosophic norms which the Yankees have spread with greatest efficacy throughout the world," lectured Barcelona's El Noticiero Universal, overlooking Spain's own sanguinary history. Foreign critics also tend to forget that there are many different forms of violence. A police state, which operates on the threat of violence by the government against its own citizens, can more easily maintain order and prevent crime that a free society. Soviet Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko chose to ignore that fact when he recently wrote...
...college student and part-time waiter at the Ambassador Hotel, recalled seeing Sirhan at the moment of the murder. "The minute the first two shots were fired," testified Di Pierro, "he still had a very sick-looking smile on his face. That's one thing-I can never forget that...
...Arabs would seem to have every reason to want to forget June 5th. Yet throughout the Arab world last week, alternate cries of vengeance and mourning echoed from a million transistor radios and a dozen leather-lunged Arab prime ministers and presidents on the first anniversary of the Six-Day War with Israel. Heedless of the lessons of that swift, disastrous encounter, Arab speakers called in thundering phrases for a renewal of the war, foreshadowing further strife in the Middle East. As a fighting slogan the Arab nations have adopted "Victory or Martyrdom," and in a nationwide speech, Egyptian President...