Word: forgeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reactionaries" which do not hesitate to suppress news contrary to their avowed policies. The third has been well described as a stand-patter. It is honest enough in its way, but its features and editorials more often than not retain a juvenile small-time flavor as if unable to forget the nostalgic picture of Los Angeles in a more placid past. Finally there is a tabloid which, despite a reasonably intelligent and liberal editorial policy, runs repeatedly to the blatant at the expense of more significant coverage...
Said the moderate Manchester Guardian: "The oversimplifications Mr. Wallace indulges in are dangerous because they delude people into thinking there is some magic way of getting world peace. ... It would be a change if he could forget his apocalyptic rhetoric a bit and get down to the level of mundane facts and figures with which statesmen have to deal...
...lack of connection between political and economic issues. In Chiba prefecture, however, occurred one small sign that politics is related to the people's lives. A farmer's wife, greeted by an aging villager near the Toofuku Temple voting place, said: "Now you have made me forget the name I've tried so hard to memorize." Said the villager: "Then vote as I did. Just write in 'kome' " (rice...
...Anti-Semitism: "People forget, or rather do not want to know, that our God made man is a Jew . . . that His Mother is a Jewess, the flower of the Jewish Race; that all His Ancestors were Jews; that the Apostles were Jews, as well as all the Prophets; finally that our holy Liturgy is entirely drawn from Jewish books. . . . Anti-Semitism ... is the most horrible blow yet suffered by Our Lord in His ever continuous Passion...
Wagner was a reminder of what Flagstad was trying to forget. She had little chance to. Columnist Walter Winchell, among others, whooped at her almost daily. (Sample: "Please do something about this woman, who before and during the war was not on our team. . . . Norway doesn't want her, which is one very good reason for the United States not to take her.") In Seattle, which has the second largest Scandinavian population in the U.S., Impresario Cecilia Schultz said, "I positively refused to ... present her in concert here, because I have a deep-rooted allegiance for the American principles...