Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election on that, consider that Brown's been in office eight years and he hasn't done much about our problems!" And he punches hard at the fact that "citizen-politicians" can construct the "Creative Society" that Reagan uses as his campaign theme. "Don't forget," he says, "there weren't any professional politicians when this country started...
...said. McKissick told the story "of the beautiful black girl with a figure like a Coka Cola bottle . . . who asks the mirror on the wall, 'mirror mirror on the wall who's the most beautiful of them all,' and the mirror answered 'Snow White and don't you forget...
...have also become trenchant critics of the middle-class Negro leadership. In the first place, the "black bourgeois" who has moved from Watts to Baldwin Hills represents the "respectable" Negro as the white man defines him: he is a man who has adapted, who has forgotten--or pretended to forget--how to talk to his brothers in the ghetto...
...Bureaucrats. Obvious service industries, from banking to barbering, will pay the tax and forget it. But other companies can apply to the Ministry of Labor or the Ministry of Agriculture for refunds. Businesses adjudged to be in manufacturing will get back the money they paid, plus 30%. Another category, including agriculture, fisheries, communications and transportation, will neither be penalized nor subsidized. Employers in this group will contribute to S.E.T., then get back exactly what they...
...just an ordinary day. Mom was at the store, taking back a party dress she swore she had never once put on (it was only slightly stained with lipstick). Sister, browsing in the Teen Scene department, was staring with fascination at a pair of earrings she might just forget to pay for, if no one was going to be looking too hard. Sonny was in school, doing pretty well on a math test by dint of some judicious copying from a friend's paper. And Dad was busy at the office, adding a few fictitious lunches to his expense...