Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dartmouth hasn't been the same since super quarterback Jay Fielder left in 1993. Until the Big Green can find a player who makes the sleepy town of Hanover, N.H. forget about "The Man," Dartmouth's gridiron game just won't be the same...
November 18: The Game. All right, this probably won't be for the Ivy title. And half the students remember more about the booze than the game itself. Heck, many people even forget they were at the game. But it's a Harvard-Yale thing, and it's something not to miss, even if it means travelling down to scenic New Haven this year...
...down. By that time, our three- and four-year-olds, who now play video war games, will be ready. They'll never even know why they're so good at violence, anger and computer warfare. But this aptitude is even now being embedded in their unconscious. And you can forget about all that intelligence stuff and fancy combat gear like that you showed. It's already obsolete. These kids surely are not going to get dirty just to fight a war. James Cooper Shaker Heights, Ohio...
...forget Lonesome Dove. It is not much more than a good tall tale, dust glowing in the sunset after horsemen have passed by. But McMurtry found a way to retell the worn old western stories of lawmen and gunmen. The grubby, lonely, smelly God-awfulness of the Old West fascinated him, and he raised it to the level of myth, used it to paint his scenery. It is no accident that Lonesome Dove begins, "When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake--not a very big one ... 'You pigs git,' Augustus said, kicking...
...things, the truth, arriving from the wrong direction, becomes an enemy truth to blacks--less welcome than a lie. (Enslave them, and then lecture them about self-respect--cutely done, Mr. Charles.) Still, my Inner Ranter is awake and would push my friend even further. He wants to say, "Forget about racism, about racists. They are always there, and irrelevant. What matters is the content of the black mind, not the white. Building the black mind, its morale." I do not say it. I have no right. My friend ascribes the ills of the universe to racism...