Word: forgottenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost forgotten the chapel was there, and it was with some curiosity that yesterday I went to the cathedral. When I arrived the great building was lonely as a mountain...
...dance steps and shake-your-finger-at-the-audience tricks that have ever been seen. There are some very catchy tunes(especially "Cross Your Heart", that everybody hums as he files out to the street. But by the time you get to park Street they're forgotten...
...Venetian comedy; subjects which are treated in full page advertisements today, were touched off in light repartee on the trestles and boards of Italy two and a half centuries ago. All I have done, in many instances, is translation putting down the current slang instead of the forgotten expressions...
...pass it over with a sneer about "another myth", or some similar remark. Nevertheless it remains true that long after the date of the invention of gunpowder in the Occident, or the meaning of a certain Shakespearean passage, or even the scores of Harvard-Yale football games are forgotten, the graduate will still carry with him memory of some inspiring teacher with whom he has come in contact and whose influence, exerted perhaps indirectly, has been a vital factor in his life. Professor Copeland has a club in New York made up of alumni who felt his influence. Probably...
...realize that he is after all merely a member of a community of other men, that the world is not made for him alone. That is what they tell the 6 year old child in Sunday School but it is true notwithstanding and therefore worth repeating when it is forgotten. The problem of adjustment, like other problems, cannot be solved by ignoring it. All these student conferences and reports on world peace, student military training, football, and educational problems in general merely form the external evidence of a healthy interest in the problems of the social community, and more narrowly...