Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jubilant Indira declared that her party had won "entirely on my name." Indeed, there was little doubt that the country had responded once again to the dynastic magic of the daughter of India's venerated first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Apparently forgotten were her authoritarian ways: the coercive programs of enforced male sterilization and slum clearance that took place during the emergency, the arrest of tens of thousands of political opponents, the censorship of the press. Mrs. Gandhi had successfully appealed to the elemental needs and concerns of India's rural masses with her two election slogans: "Banish...
...reawakens an unsolved psychic problem, and seems to offer a solution to it. The beloved, glimpsed across a crowded room, may resemble a parent, grandparent or sibling. Family Therapist Norman Paul of Boston says the beloved "tends to match someone else in your life that you've forgotten about." Tennov thinks the process is far simpler. The limerent scans the field and picks out the most attractive available lover that can reasonably be expected to return one's love...
While some families poked around in dresser drawers and jewelry cases for gold cufflinks and earrings, others rummaged through attics and closets in search of long forgotten sterling silver tea sets, candlesticks, or perhaps just a stray silver ashtray. Gold and silver fever is spreading to ordinary folks, and many were lining up at coin and jewelry shops to seE their little treasures for quick cash...
...this Gothic Brittany which initiated me in art and God." And one can judge the intensity of the Nabis' desire for a new sort of pictorial symbolism by seeing Bernard's, Serusier's or Gauguin's Pont-Aven paintings against the more ordinary folklorique images by now forgotten academicians like Emile Vernier or Alfred Guillou. Never before had French art experienced such a plague of nuns and innocent provincial virgins. The trend was neatly parodied by a journalist, Alphonse Allais, who in 1883 exhibited a perfectly blank sheet of white paper with the title First Communion of Anemic Young Girls...
...there is no snow. Winter has forgotten its lines. On damp, gray days at the beginning of December we said to each other, "It's coming" and "Looks like we're in for it," pretending to be worried at the approach of the first northeaster of the season. The fact is that everyone welcomes the melodrama of a big snowstorm. It is not just the sounds of the town and the highway that are hushed. The raging of ego and the clank of ambition are stilled at least for a while...