Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American old enough to remember American competence, work well done and pride in fine service swiftly rendered, it is jarring to realize how much Americans have forgotten, and how quickly...
Michael has accepted a contract from little-known Zebra Books for a memoir titled From the Outside Looking In, concerning his distant relationship with his famous parents and stepmother. His literary agent, Scott Meredith, calls it a "very factual and very, very frank" account of being "adopted and then forgotten." Another publisher, however, describes it as "nasty" and "skewed." News of the younger Reagan's latest venture came as an unpleasant surprise to the White House. Said an aide to the President: "He hasn't black-sheeped us lately, but, apparently, he's back...
...Screenwriter Robert Bolt. A year later, as the tall ships clogged New York harbor, Stone sat down and wrote Platoon. "Essentially what I wanted to say was, Remember. Just remember what that war was. Remember what war is. This is it. I wanted to make a document of this forgotten pocket of time. I felt Viet Nam was omitted from history books. Like a battle I fought in during the war: a lot of people got hurt that day, and it wasn't even listed as a battle by the Army, as if they didn't want to admit...
...seminarian with a Ph.D. in classics from Yale who now teaches American history at Northwestern. In Nixon Agonistes (1970), he tracked a man contending for a lifetime with self-destructive impulses. With Reagan, he finds a subject wholly at peace with his past. Whatever is unpleasant is simply ignored, forgotten or invented. Reagan, for example, fondly remembers his Illinois childhood as "one of those rare Huck Finn-Tom Sawyer idylls." Wills, reared in the Midwest himself, knows the dark side of Twainiana, and he finds it in Tampico, Ill., one month after the Reagan family's arrival. HANG AND BURN...
...hard part of the season is over. By and by, last night will be forgotten...