Word: forgotten
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...better and worse.Of course, there is a significant downside for art if McCain wins. With a McCrazy budget, we could see less money going to education and already under-funded, public school arts programs would nearly evaporate. Kids with otherwise great artistic potential might join the rot and be forgotten by history.On top of this, a great stigma has been constructed by the Republicans against the term “elitist.” They have created the sense that educated people must apologize for their educations. The only acceptable worldview becomes a dumbed-down version, and the same could...
...attention paid to our generation’s enthusiasm threatens to drown out an even more potent reality—that Barack Obama is himself a transformative leader, not only because he proposes new policies, but because he will restore the promise of government that Americans have all but forgotten under George W. Bush...
...suggestion that Barack Obama has been “palling around with terrorists” or wants to “experiment with socialism”) certain to seize the public’s attention. And yet, just like the overplayed photo-ops whose intended meaning is forgotten as the glitches emerge with every repeated viewing (Dukakis’s tank experiment that torpedoed his campaign, for example) Palin has lost control of her own significance. In the wake of news that her two-month-old wardrobe is worth more than most Americans’ yearly incomes and that...
...captured by high-tech digital video camcorders, which push film movies into the esoteric, ‘retro’ corner already occupied by the Polaroid camera. But Home Movie Day, which was hosted by the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) last Saturday, seeks to rediscover and celebrate these old, forgotten film reels lying in dusty corners of attics and basements. Created by the Center for Home Movies, Home Movie Day is an international event observed in 50 cities worldwide. Now in its sixth year, the event was first brought to Harvard by Elizabeth Coffey, Film Conservator at the HFA, whose...
...individuals produce an ethical stance as silly as giving dignity to plants? Explanation can partly be attributed to the revelation in the report that “a minority of [committee] members considers it probable that plants are sentient.” Plants, for those of you who have forgotten, have no brains and no neurons. If they feel pain or experience some sort of consciousness, it is through a mechanism completely unknown to science. Yet the majority of the committee ruled that sentience is “morally relevant” because we cannot rule out the possibility...