Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...probably be unaware of the battle just past--will again protest their exclusion from the decision, and, at best, duplicate the action of CORDS. The institutional memory of a student body is inherently short. The knowledge, and perhaps cynicism, that students acquired during this lengthy ordeal will probably be forgotten...
LOLITA HAS BECOME a sort of under-aged siren for the creators of stage and screen, luring writers and directors to crash on the undramatic shoals of Nabokov's first-person prose. First Stanley Kubrick in his 1962 movie, then some forgotten adapter in an early '70s musical, and now Edward Albee in this vulgarized comic drama have attempted to drag Nabokov's characters from the sheltering artistry of his novel into the coldly objective glare of the theater. It's beginning to become unpleasantly clear that Lolita's appeal to directors and audiences alike lies not in its author...
...aquawomen have not yet forgotten the results of that disastrous relay. Competing with a team of injured swimmers, including Terri Frick--who had just dislocated her knee in the previous event--Harvard fought courageously but fell short of the win by several tenths of a second...
Finally, registration represents a transparent attempt to match Russian aggression with American preparedness. It was a meaningless gesture when Carter proposed it after the invasion of Afghanistan, and it remains an embarrassing--if largely forgotten--example of our misguided attempt to stave off the ill-defined communist threat...
...story perhaps - yet there al ways seems room for a new history of opera. Composers are constantly being rediscovered or reinterpreted, and, unlike plays, many of which are forgotten after their first production, operas have the gift of eternal life. Within the past 20 years, for example, there has been something of a revival of the works of Monteverdi's little-known successor, Francesco Cavalli...