Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nothing less than a revolution, from the birth of unofficial political movements like the Estonian Popular Front to the bruising constitutional crisis with Moscow over the republic's sovereignty. "For years we have gotten used to speaking of the party's monopoly on power," he says. "We have forgotten the principle that the party has power only as long as the people trust...
...Howe out to Leader of the House, along with all the other deadbeats . . . I remember very clearly writing all this down and Margaret agreeing. My writing may have got a bit illegible towards teatime . . . A few very stiff drinks later, we looked at the list and realised we'd forgotten the Foreign Office, so M. had to ring a little shopwalker figure called Mr. Major who not surprisingly couldn't believe his luck and will no doubt continue to embarrass us in the councils of the nations for many moons to come...
What is easily forgotten in this argument is the right of citizen taxpayers. They send representatives to Washington who are answerable for the expenditure of funds exacted from them. In general these voters want to favor their own values if government is going to get into the culture-subsidizing area at all (a proposition many find objectionable in itself). Politicians, insofar as they support the arts, will tend to favor conventional art (certainly not masochistic art). Anybody who doubts that has no understanding of a politician's legitimate concern for his or her constituents' approval. Besides, it is quaint...
...know that its been almost 20 years since you studied political philosophy as an undergraduate. But I can't believe that you have forgotten the basic principle--as put forth by Mill and his contemporaries--that the unshackled expression of ideas is essential to the survival of a free society...
...quickly denied any such thing, but the damage was done. Details of his late-night soul-searching were too vivid to be fabricated or to be quickly forgotten. The Nikkei stock average suffered a 517-point drop in one afternoon, falling to 32,951 before partly recovering. "The market thinks Uno is finished," said a Tokyo stockbroker, "and that means more political trouble ahead...