Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Only one with a heart of stone could stand unmoved by the trials and tribulations of the American Beats and the English Angries [June 9]. Nor is history likely to forget them either. As long as man stands just a little straighter his head a little higher, in the presence of whines and howls and poor-folks writing, there will always be a place in his memory for the Crybaby Generation...
...Deems Taylor. He directed the investigations of the Ku-Klux Klan and peonage on Southern plantations that won the World Pulitzer Prizes. He took a proprietary interest in the news: "Who's covering my murder trial? Who's covering my snowstorm?" He told reporters: "Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one." He could be coldly disdainful. Sniffed he: "I never fired a man in my life. If I couldn't do anything with...
...exiled Makarios to return to Cyprus). Although the Turks started riots on the grounds that the plan failed to provide for "partition," realistic Turks are aware that the partition scheme is geographically infeasible. The Turks mainly want to keep the island from going to Greece; privately, they would forget partition if the British stayed. In public, however, it was another matter...
Unexpected Tensions. Pianist Richter's technical mastery is so complete that he makes audiences forget about technique. With his enormous hands, he can play tenths and simultaneously thirds between thumb and forefinger. His bravura passages are majestic with no hint of pounding, his pianissimos a wonder of velvety control. His flexible rhythm gives even the most familiar music unexpected tensions. As he plays, his faunlike face registers emotion like a mass of exposed nerve ends, winces in a spasm of pain when he hits one of his rare wrong notes...
...salmonberry blossoms fluttered, and the Indians spun out to gather wild celery and Indian rhubarb, came home for feasts of delicate herring eggs (cooked in seal oil, garnished with soy sauce). Spring yawned in the lower valleys, and out popped the arctic poppy, shooting star, lupine and forget-me-not (Alaska's official flower). And now, after a long winter's self-imposed confinement, out lumbered the great Alaskan bears-and with them the sudden sparkle of high military brass from Washington, who, it just so happens, favor the bear season as the best time for Alaskan inspection...