Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Albert Camus and Francois Mauriac. His first novel, Night (1958), was an indelible account of the Nazi atrocities as seen through the eyes of a teenage boy. The hell inside the death camps is described in austere, intense prose that became the author's emblem: "Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night . . . Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue...
...were some mainstream economists who have paid little attention to Buchanan's work. One M.I.T. professor last week called public-choice theory "unsophisticated." Buchanan admits that his ideas are "not standard" but points out that many of his theories are "simple applications of common sense that the academics all forget about...
...Forget about Dartmouth and Harvard," Crimson Coach Martyn Kingston said. "Any one of the eight teams can get to the finals...
...Forget big fingers and chocolate milk, the rhetorical flashpoints for attacking council incompetence, they distort the enormous lack of commitment that members of the council have made to the undergraduate community that they purport to represent. More than half the members of the body, who are asked to attend fewer than 10 three-hour general meetings and an equally small number of committee meetings each semester couldn't even make it to the most important session of the year...
These are the same Dirty Harry-type clods who get all worked up when some bad guy "gets off" because his constitutional rights were violated. What they forget--or don't care to understand--is that the Bill of Rights exists to shield the innocent from such harassment. The umbrella of its liberties extends to the guilty to protect better those of the innocent--those who have nothing to hide...