Word: forgotten
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...avid player of charades and spinner of tales, young "Peter" (as he was called by everyone in the family for reasons even he has forgotten) turned instinctively to using home life as the basis for satire. At prep school, he won a prize for a story about his family, called Buffalo Meat. After graduating from Williams College and touring South America and Asia in "a stint as a wild man in the Navy," Gurney went to the Yale School of Drama. "My whole family came there in trepidation to see my play Love in Buffalo, and left in relief that...
...speech recalled his address to the British Parliament last June, in which he called for an effort to promote democracy throughout the world. Most of the net effect of the evangelical convention speech, therefore, was political, silencing those on the New Right who have wondered whether the President has forgotten them. Just as commentators on Chinese affairs have noted that parts of speeches by Chinese leaders are designed to satisfy the large Marist port of the Communist Party which joined during the fervor of the Cultural Revolution, so Reagan's speeches may be intended to satisfy his own domestic critics...
...goes deeper than that. In the torrent of doublespeak surrounding Harold Washington and Thomas Minter, it has been forgotten that these men are, quite simply, the best candidates for the offices they seek. Prejudiced whites in Chicago and New York, in their fearful haste to bar Blacks from positions of political authority, condemn residents of those cities to suffer under the uninspired, under-prepared men of mediocrity they throw in as buffers. The sooner demagogic purveyors of racial fears like Epton and Koch are made unwelcome, the sooner "merit" can truly improve the quality of leadership in America...
...twelve-year "recourse note," then leases the master record for seven years to various investors for $16,000 each, and . . . have you lost track? The gist of it is that all these investors in the inflated property can pay their share largely with loans, which are later forgotten, and then the total investment can be deducted from the investors' income. The IRS has so far found 5,200 returns that used this ploy during 1979-81, to the tune of $60 million in unpaid taxes...
Gently but firmly forced into retirement last year by President Reagan after a naval career of a mere 63 years, Admiral Hyman Rickover, 83, is scarcely gone or forgotten. Last week in Washington, Richard Nixon, 70, Gerald Ford, 69, and Jimmy Carter, 58 (another man forced into retirement by Reagan), gathered to salute Rickover, under whom they had all technically served as lower-ranking naval officers. Nixon rumbled through Happy Birthday on the piano (strange, considering it was no one's birthday), Carter saluted the admiral's influence on him as "second only to my father," and Ford...