Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sciences in a move many educators have labeled purely political and restrictive of academic freedom. By reducing support for research in areas such as abortion and family mental health, educators say, Reagan hopes to see programs he considers taboo or not justifying government involvement swept into a corner and forgotten...
...action: Memorial Day, 1972. Wilson's cast of losers looks nostalgically at the trains that pass through nearby Union Station, but they live in a world that doesn't care about the past, that churns up the present and those who live in it, and then spits them out, forgotten. It's the old Cuckoo's Nest Syndrome; the inmates at the Hot I know what's going on, but no one is listening...
...slimy and the courageous, the forgotten and the forgetful, the vicars of Washington and the viceroys of Vermont, you are the churner of words to fill the spaces between ads, and you also buy the ads. You are Pat Sorrento, the shop man who tells us stories of "the good old days." You are David Rockefeller '36 and Caspar W. Weinberger '38 and Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and John F. Kennedy '40 and David L. Halberstam '55 and Bill Lee (Red Sox pitcher, honorary) and David Riesman '31 and F.A.O. Schwartz...
...There were many other novels before that," he confides, "but they ought to be forgotten." He lowers his voice slightly. "They were Gothic novels, lots of mad women in mansions, inspired by Jane Eyre and The Count of Monte Cristo, and set in exotic Haiti." He shudders slightly at the memory...
...different view. He recalls the playing conditions of two years ago, when Watson Rink had not yet been renovated: "We practiced that year on an outside rink at Brown & Nichols at 8 a.m. every day. It got pretty cold out there, and the seniors on the team have not forgotten about it. It brought the team together...