Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...STANLEY A Karnow '47, the old George Santayana quote, "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it," rings only partly true Arthur Schlesinger Jr. '38's line is equally true he says that "Those who remember history are condemned to repeat...
McKinney is not the only one with a shot at the gold in a sport his countrymen forget about between Olympics. Kevin Winter is a cheerful, wide fellow, 5 ft. 10½ in. tall and 198 Ibs. heavy, tops, who figures that he has an excellent chance for gold in the 90-kg weight-lifting event. Winter is quick to add that although he was the nation's best lifter, pound for pound, at the May trials in Las Vegas, he would not be a medal prospect if the Soviet-bloc countries were coming. "Maybe a few American medals...
They looked like angry apparitions, these shawled women with arms stretched up to God and faces gnarled by grief. They came not because they remembered, but because they resolutely refused to let others forget. What has become of their husbands, their brothers and sons who have vanished during nearly a decade of civil strife? Delirious with despair, hundreds of them defied Lebanon's warlords last week and shut down the freshly opened roads between East and West Beirut. Bustling about in thick cotton dresses, they piled up burning tires, tree trunks and splintered furniture. Motorists who dared approach...
...Paulie, and some of their friends playing baseball on a play-ground using a tennis ball and not too much athletic mobility. At one point the group stands in play, swaying and snapping their fingers to the music. The scene is so unusually appealing that for a moment we forget that there is any drama going on, and would be content just continuing to watch the tableau. By the end of the movie. Charlie has truly become the Pope of Greenwich Village, but--he knows and we know that his happiest memories will dwell on scenes like the playground, scenes...
...also digs a working woman's elbow into dippy socialites and celebrity puritans like Diet Doctor Nathan Pritikin, whom she took to a Dallas taco joint. While he showed her how to eat healthily even there, she thought ravenously of "guilty nachos." Discovering Orlando, Fla., Schwartz announced, "Forget singles bars, forget computer matchmaking, forget gourmet dating clubs. If you want to meet a man, head straight for Disney World . . . I was there last week-and so were half of the divorced fathers in America...