Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Exonian rejects the academic, he places amazing emphasis on intellectual sophistication, subjectively defined. He feels that he is different from his classmates, and he treasures this distinction. Yet the only real difference is that he is a little older intellectually. In order to feel really different he must forget what he was like but a year before. When a classmate discovers that the truth is not always in the Bible, or that the devil did not invent Communism, the Exonian's feelings are akin to those of an older brother explaining that babies do not come from storks...
...quarter pole in his race for governor, New Jersey Republican Malcolm Forbes was joined last week by a seasoned political pacer. "Think of the news it would make," said Vice President Nixon, "if Malcolm Forbes won. We had a little election in Wisconsin-one the Republicans would like to forget.* An upset gave inspiration to the Democratic Party. An upset here would prove to Republicans all over the country that it can be done." On the chance that it could, Nixon toured seven key counties, made eight full-dress speeches, shook as many hands as he could reach...
...soothe the pains of workouts there are whirlpool baths and other expensive paraphernalia in the Abilene field house. But there is never a word to soften the painful urge for perfection. Even after they whipped one big opponent this season, Coach Moser's Eagles were not allowed to forget the 20 points that had been scored against them. "You played a great game," Moser told his team, "but you'll all have to do 20 pushups after practice every day next week." After they beat Big Spring, Moser let his boys off easy. "You did a good...
Ibsen is one of drama's towering master builders. Yet many who admit this dismiss him as excellent for his time, but valuable now only as an admitted period-piece; they cite Doll's House and Ghosts. But they forget that Ibsen in his younger days wrote a sprawling, grandiose work that is timeless: Peer Gynt. And that Ibsen in his maturity wrote a far tighter master-piece whose power is equally timeless: The Master Builder. The HDC choice of a play could not have been better...
...Them Eat Cake. In London, after Eileen Childs was awarded $13,160 when she testified that her injuries in a road accident made her forget how to cook, that she had been forced to serve canned beans and peas for nearly a year, unable to cook her husband's steak and kidney pudding, her husband got an additional $2,100 compensation...