Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Good enough, I thought. And then I read the end of the article. I've never been able to forget it. And in it lies the plainest argument for preserving the community of Harvard, not Club Harvard...
...moves from one character to the next. And whether he plays Jeeves with his impeccable British accent and completely upright posture, or whether slouching and guffawing as Wooster or whether he carelessly holds a cigarette while gesticulating wildly as Florence, Duke always manages to make the audience forget that he is only one man playing a variety of roles...
Strange though it may sound, Bush--as President--is really the archetypal American observer of disaster. We aren't totally heartless, yet our sense of adventure lets us forget that what we're cheering on is real. Hence our underlying complacency--as if the whole disaster thing were a replacement for the World Series, and our team had the chance to pull together and score the most runs ever in a single game...
...they would think I was some kind of classical music freak.) Everyone who has ever caught a baseball has Little League moments. Some of my friends still have those cheap, puny trophies with the miniature baseball player posing on top stored somewhere in their rooms. No one wants to forget...
Gilder's arguments, while forceful, are not always persuasive. He seems to forget that Japan, an island nation rich in know-how and poor in resources, is itself a prime beneficiary of the triumph of ideas over matter. The Japanese may not be also-rans in software and custom chips forever. But at a time when so many books talk only about what is wrong with the U.S., Gilder's optimism about the future of American high-tech is refreshing...