Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there a lateburning light--and suddenly out of the clear darkness the sound of bells. As an endless dream it went on; the spirit of the past brooding over a new generation, the chosen youth from the muddled, unchastened world, still fed romantically on the mistakes and half-forgotten dreams of dead statesmen and poets. Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights, destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last...
Pulitzer Prizes are awarded to James Michener's novel, Tales of the South Pacific, for fiction, Margaret Clapp for her biography Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow, Bernard De Voto for his historical work, Across the Wide Missouri. The Nobel Prize for Literature went to T.S. Eliot '10, well-known for his poetry collections, including The Waste Land (1922) and Ash Wednesday...
...runaway rhetoric on hold long enough to announce the American delegation was here "for the Palestinian children." That didn't mean his less-than-diplomatic statements -- describing Madeleine Albright as an "agent for the Palestinians," and Jerusalem as "the united and eternal capital of Israel" -- had been forgotten. TIME has learned that the U.S. embassy in Israel had to urge Arafat to appear in the same room as Gingrich. And while they were meeting, the Palestinian Legislative Council issued a blistering attack accusing the Speaker of being "party to the Zionist movement" and urging its members not to receive...
...aberrance with something almost sweet about it" disgusted me. As a counselor working with abusive men, I know that if the genders in the Letourneau case were reversed, we would not be having this discussion. A man who did what Letourneau did would be long buried and forgotten. There would be no clemency by the judge and no five-page story in TIME. And rightly so. There is nothing remotely romantic about the rape and sexual assault of a child, and nothing can mitigate its horror, certainly not the "complicity" of the victim. Those of us who hear daily...
Question the status quo: That seems to be the conclusion, whether your issue is grapes or capitalism or a crappy summer job. We've learned and forgotten a lot of stuff in four years. But finally, we've gleaned from our experiences with this Harvard achievement rat race one thing: the smartest people in the whole affair are the ones who remember to keep thinking...