Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knew that was what she wanted to be from age twelve, when she saw a fellow worshiper convulsed by an epileptic seizure in a Newton, Mass, church. But that was in 1896, when women doctors were still frowned upon. Sara's carriage-builder father told her to forget the idea. After breezing through Radcliffe in three years, she pursued her second love, philology, took a Ph.D. at the University of Munich. There, too, she met and married Lawyer Sebastian Jordan, had her only child, Mary Stuart Jordan...
During dinner, the nervous guest is too jumpy to look her in the eye, yet he dare not look any lower. He struggles simultaneously to 1) eat his omelette, 2) ignore Marie's sweater, 3) forget the socks 4) make conversation. And then, abruptly, incomprehensibly, they are clasped together on the couch. But the unsleeping, worrying mind refuses to leave well alone. "Whose socks are those?" he asks. "Actually," Marie answers, "Colin...
Speaking at the inauguration of Clark Kerr as President of the University of California, Pusey implored educators not to let what he called "practical concerns" force them to forget that "the greatest intellectual achievements and discoveries of man" come from scholarly research...
...this "Know-Nothing revolt," writes Schlesinger, "is to wipe out the transformation wrought in the Democratic Party by Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal and to recreate something like the Democratic Party of the twenties." Today's Democratic leaders "forget that the Democratic Party has been nationally successful only as a great coalition in which intellectuals play a central role," forget also that "the great natural resource of the Democratic Party is brains...
...flow. Speaking solely as a capitalist, we industrialists are not at all happy about spending $40 billion a year for implements of war that, if they had to be used, would mean the destruction of all our property, and our annihilation at the same time. Don't forget that this arms race places a crushing burden of taxation on industry." Khrushchev understood, "because of the expense to us of our own defense effort," but said: "We are being driven most reluctantly to these expenditures." To illustrate the U.S. desire for peace, Eaton told Khrushchev about Industrialist Andrew Carnegie...