Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great genius," he recalled wryly. "That was a lot of baloney. . . . There has been no improvement in movies since the old days. . . . They have not improved in stories. I don't know that they've improved in anything. What the modern movie lacks is beauty . . . they have forgotten movement in the moving picture-it's all still and stale...
...Sweet Song. The golden egg hatched by sage Mother Goudge is different and much more endearing. Here, the lecherous and predatory decadence of the New World is forgotten in the leafy byways of the Old Country; here, quotations are culled only from the sunny hedgerows of George Meredith, Shakespeare, The Wind in the Willows. World War II-the one which was caused by all the irresponsible behavior described by ardent Father Haydn-is over at last, and Britons are exhausted...
Most Americans had all but forgotten Nürnberg, but its machinery of justice still ground on. The men now on trial were, in a sense, more important than the great and obvious evildoers sentenced earlier. They were men who had never, with their own hands, fired a shot or beaten a Jew. But they were as indispensable to the totalitarian state as the soldier, the policeman and the executioner. They were the plodding men with the filing-cabinet minds-the bureaucrats...
...four-hand piano version of Rachmaninoff's long-forgotten first symphony was found in Moscow two years ago; Soviet scholars, looking farther, uncovered orchestral parts in Leningrad. (The Russians, who once scorned Rachmaninoff as "the servant and tool of the worst enemies of the proletariat" because he left Russia after the revolution, now honor him as one of Mother Russia...
When a friend asked her recently to identify the birdlike demon entitled Mrs. Partridge, Carrington said nothing to indicate that Mrs. Partridge might, under different circumstances, have been herself. But her answer showed that the artist had forgotten neither her British background nor her Irish wit. The lady in question, she replied, "lived highly respected, and is still remembered as the 'better half of poor Colonel Partridge. When she died the neighbors sighed, 'She was fey but she was county...