Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...king is gone but he's not forgotten...
...Lord, nobody can chew you like Earl can chew you, and it's plenty tough to take. But the instant it's over, it's forgotten. The man never carries a grudge, and that's where trouble can start. He does the best job of any manager I've ever known at keeping 25 ballplayers relatively happy. He doesn't do it by being their friend; he does it by never, but never, taking anything personally and by making damn sure nobody else does either...
When he wants forgotten is not minor. Much more than the actual crime, Kennedy's refusal to clear up once and for all what happened July 18, 1969 sticks in the craw. Ten years after, it still seems possible that the closest Kennedy has come to telling the truth was his confession to the people of Massachusetts that his crime was "indefensible...
...main purpose for the gathering was never forgotten. The spirits of thirteen women murdered in Boston this year as well as countless other female victims moved among the audience as it stood for a moment of silence. The brief remembrance was followed by the reading of selected passages from the journal of Barbara Smith, a member of the black feminist Combahee River Collective...
...slow and terrible eye, such art was decadent and, because of its internationalism, bourgeois-formalist. The Gulag swallowed some artists, like Boris Kushner. Others, such as Larionov, Goncharova, Gabo and Ivan Puni, went into exile. Those who stayed, like Rodchenko or the architect Konstantin Melnikov, survived as ghosts, forgotten men in a culture of vindictive Stalinist toadies. Like Cronus, the Revolution devoured its children. As a wholesale trashing of a civilization, only Hitler's demolition of the German modernists compares with it. Inside the Soviet Union, the works themselves lay buried, invisible to the people and never exported-until...