Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reality, of course, turned out quite differently: instead of further melting the pot, the pluralistic frenzy of the sixties helped in many ways to polarize the ingredients. Nevertheless, in their subsequent starry-eyed attempts since then to foster complete racial harmony, many Americans have forgotten a basic fact people will always find irresistable interest in categorizing others on the basis of race, class, beliefs, or some other distinctive trait...
...something that they do on their own, not as something that involves others. It's a performance they give, their traveling show; they could give it anywhere, to anyone. They may respect "teaching," because it is something they know they're good at, but they've forgotten learning, which is what those others do, often quite slowly and defectively. It's not ignorance that bothers them: ignorance exists like a hole in the desert, for them to pour their learning into; it's "incompetence"--students not picking it all up rapidly, but getting muddled and not being able to unwrap...
...short remarks by Kurt Vonnegut on Nuclear War and John Gardner's posthumous advice to young fiction writers remained in my thoughts after the ephemeral had been forgotten. A few facts from the "Index," which was designed to "reflect the shifting currents of fact below the surface of the news," also stayed with me; the number of students who scored "double 800's" on the SAT's in 1982-83 (only 4), the number of wars in 1983 (41), and the percentage of Americans who think the afterlife will be boring (5 percent...
...lack of organ Tocattas which started off their last two albums. In pursuit of what, has Mannheim Steamroller foresaken these trademarks? They seem at first to be "playing if safe," taking the themes which everyone liked from their previous albums to make a new one, but have they merely forgotten some obvious favorites...
Joseph spends most of his life unobtrusively trying to survive on turf that is also occupied by the society that has forgotten him. He spends his evenings trying to talk to women, walking them home "in case anyone tries to mess with you" and melting away at the door. After his five- or six-hour meal, he looks for a place to read, which he does until the morning, and then sleeps until the early evening. How did he get this way? The other folks on the street shrug and say, "Loser...