Word: forgotten
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Since the romanticization of the modern reporter, not enough writers have sought to compare today's journalism with that of the long but relatively obscured decades that preceded it. Wayward Reporter revives the ghost of a great journalist without romanticizing it, and rescues sometimes-forgotten journalistic standards for Lieblings of the eighties...
After lunch with Republican Senators and Congressmen on Capitol Hill, Reagan revived an almost forgotten Washington tradition by proceeding to the Supreme Court's Greek temple for a "get-acquainted" visit. A social call by a President-elect on the Justices was regular procedure until the late 19th century, but the custom then fell into disuse...
...once it did, she knew exactly what she was doing. She first appeared on Broadway in 1911, doing ragtime songs in a long-forgotten revue called A la Broadway and Hello, Paris. Deciding that none of the male playwrights quite matched her style, she wrote a play for herself in 1926. It was, of course, titled Sex, and most nice people professed to be outraged. SEX WINS HIGH...
...simple fidelity to detail that has made L'Amour's novels excep tional bestsellers. His popularity keeps growing because, in an epoch of prose experiments and self-conscious narrative, he has never forgotten to spin his yarn. "My books are meant to be read aloud," he says. "I'm a troubadour, a village taleteller. I'm the guy at the end of the bar or in the shadows of the campfire." In the past decade, he has become a kind of Woody Guthrie of fiction, a conservative populist who believes the myths he creates...
When the final buzzer mercifully sounded, Harvard had dropped to 1-1 and Northeastern had won its opener in a game best forgotten by both sides. Everything just went wrong for Harvard, and the mistakes weren't even the kind you can learn from...