Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their righteous zeal, the lunatic fringe of the anti-abortion movement has forgotten their right to protest does not mean they can violently overturn a Supreme Court decision. Many in the pro-life movement do understand this, and the staff of The Crimson is right in calling upon them to control the more radical elements of their movement...
QUEEN OF THE MIST: THE FORGOTTEN HEROINE OF NIAGARA...
...impossible: merely the forgotten truth. Poet Joan Murray, in her epic poem Queen of the Mist, details the sad life and short fame of Annie Taylor, an elderly and utterly destitute school teacher living at the turn of the century who devised and executed what seemed the perfect plan for money and fame. After building with her thin hands a barrel to enclose her body like a womb and shelter her from her fall over the raging ledge of water, Annie Taylor subsequently became the first person in history to propel herself down the length of Niagara Falls...
...hope, the crowd gathered to see her feat finds instead "a woman, short and plain and only slightly bruised,/ moving dizzily among them/ like a fly hatched by mistake in the winter sun." To the crowd gathered and to history itself, Annie was an ugly old woman easily forgotten...
...female youth and fertility. Perhaps if Annie Taylor fell over the falls 40 years earlier her story would have been different. Perhaps then we would not remember young and handsome Bobby Leach, the famous "first man to go over the falls in a barrel" (five year after Annie's forgotten leap). Perhaps then we would remember Annie Taylor as the courageous heroine she was. But Murray's effort is not merely to put Annie back in history; Murray's greatest accomplishment in The Queen of the Mist is exhibiting inarguably that history is only human and can be a horribly...