Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even today Ignotus refuses to give details of the advanced methods used by the AVO ("These are things I want to forget"), but is ready to talk of the lack-of-sleep technique which "though not a strong enough torture to induce people to confess," has its own terrors. "At a certain point you go to sleep all the same," he says, "even standing with a light glaring in your eyes. It is not a proper sleep, but a kind of half-dreamed nightmare. Hungarian prisoners call it 'the cinema,' and when you say you 'have been...
...poor blacks of Port-au-Prince and turned them against the well-off mulatto elite. Preaching a race struggle, Rabble-Rouser Fignole promised the blacks cars, houses and the mistresses of the rich. "Haiti for the black Haitians!" he cried. In more recent years he has tried to forget such anti-elite demagoguery...
...talk about the lonely task of writing with anyone who cared to drop in. The student who wanted to learn about himself found that a talk with Faulkner was as revealing as a session on the analyst's couch. "He reminded me of things I wanted to forget," said one senior. "You have to open up your insides and put them out on the table and examine them with Faulkner...
They admit that MIT wage rates are "slightly" higher than those at Harvard, but point out that the University lacks the income from government contracts which make possible higher scales. "And don't forget that our wage agreement comes up for revision at the end of June," adds Thomas F. Stone, president of the HUERA...
...residential colleges. Last week, as news of his own retirement spread, he was absorbed in another sort of activity-reading the scores of letters from former students whom he had "set on fire." "Mostly sob stuff!" said Theodore Sizer gruffly, but it was obvious that he would not soon forget those letters, or their authors...