Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...English: "I was eight years old, and I knew bad things were happening, but I don't remember the details. My mother took me away. She explained to me what it meant that I would have a different name, that I cannot make a mistake, that I had to forget my name and that I couldn't, if they said 'Write your name,' I couldn't write it down." He became Andras Malesevics. The Grofs, mother and son, living on stolen papers, pretended to be acquaintances of a Christian family. "They took us in at a very serious risk...
...Town Under Siege This CBS documentary with Ed Bradley was a dramatic, well-argued exercise in muckraking. A little-known loophole exempts oil companies from laws on hazardous-waste disposal, and cbs showed how one poor town suffers as a result. Forget Matt Damon in The Rainmaker--the kid lawyer in this case is twice as appealing...
...been, for years--white guilt and black pain colluding to forget. But periodically the zeitgeist erupts with flashbacks to a tragedy whose costs are still exacted on the street corners of America, at water coolers, in classrooms, along Sunday pews. Now is such a time. Last month in New Orleans, the name of George Washington, a former slave owner, was removed from a school. This week Amistad, Steven Spielberg's epic about a famous 1839 slave revolt, premieres. Currently in repertory at the Chicago Lyric Opera is Anthony Davis' opera, also titled Amistad...
...there is a spate of new books focused on slaves and enslavers. Velma Maia Thomas offers Lest We Forget (Crown; $29.95), an interactive children's book serious enough for parents. Readers remove slave sale receipts from envelopes and pull back a paper ship hatch to find slaves stacked like cordwood. British historian Hugh Thomas (no relation) has published The Slave Trade (Simon & Schuster; $37.50). Tracking the barter of Africans from 1440 to 1870, Thomas ranges through Europe, Arabia, Africa and the Americas. As societies spin and tug at one another like a warped solar system, a sad message emerges...
...that quote strikes you as uncomfortably close to what "let them eat cake" might sound like if translated into Upper East Side real estate talk, try to forget it. Dwell on something comforting--the fact, for instance, that the maintenance in an A+ building can often be expressed as something in the teen thousands. Whatever you do, don't panic...