Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Casting a worried eye on the threatening sky and another on his demoralized cadres, President Ho Chi Minh last week took to the radio to exhort peasants to forget their grievances long enough to build up mud dikes against the coming monsoon floods, then set off on a 300-mile swing through the restive countryside to visit and cheer his flagging cadres...
...forget to speak scornfully of the Victorian Age, there will be time for meekness when you try to better it." With that challenging epigraph borrowed from James M. (Peter Pan) Barrie, a Philadelphia artist named John Maass has written a book (The Gingerbread Age; Rinehart; $7.95) defending-of all things -American Victorian architecture. "This was no mean age," says Author Maass. "In every field of human endeavor, the mid-19th century was a time of frenetic activity and massive achievement. Is it true that the generation which constructed the transatlantic cable and the transcontinental railroad was unable to build...
...other hand, the Churches are trying to create a new Christian order, then the first business at hand is to define that order and forget the educational experiment for a few centuries. What, for instance, is the contemporary world supposed to understand by the Christian use of the word "God"? How are we to take statements about heaven and hell or the day of judgment? When these questions can be answered in ways which move men to live again, then we can talk about Christian education
...these men are challenging and often inspiring. The Departments are usually too rigidly committed to the idea that what is best for the scholar is best for Harvard and forget or are afraid to admit that scholarship is not the only worthwhile creative pursuit. As a result, artists and authors are more apt to visit Harvard for a year and give extra-curricular talks, rather than courses where their ideas can be given a closer discussion and where students can exchange ideas with the artist...
...often feel that many of those who graduate from Radcliffe could have had a better education, for while we try to educate these people to be critical, the process often stops with college. Something we often forget is that it's important to know how to buy books, and to want to buy books...