Word: forgottenness
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...otherwise how could he describe with such tender eloquence a forgettable player, onetime New York Mets shortstop Tony Fernandez, taking batting practice, "laying each bunt down like a necktie on a bed." Hopping adroitly from decade to decade, backward and forward, Angell blows the dust off such near forgotten minor marvels as the switch-hitting Cleveland Indian Carlos Baerga crushing two home runs in the same inning from opposite sides of the plate, and a game in 1933 (Angell was there) in which one Luke Sewell, catching for the now defunct Washington Senators, tagged out two bunched-up runners...
Lately, other coaches have forgotten other rules. There's ex-basketball coach Larry Eustachy of Iowa State, who forgot the one about not getting drunk and canoodling with coeds. There's Jim Harrick, ex-basketball coach of the University of Georgia, who forgot the one about not permitting athletes to receive bogus class credits. There's Jan van Breda Kolff, ex-basketball coach of St. Bonaventure University, who forgot to require a transfer student to have a two-year degree, not a certificate in welding...
...what will undoubtedly and tragically be forgotten, as the Supreme Court reviews Banks’s 1980 murder case this fall and as politicians everywhere continue to debate peripheral details of the death penalty process, is that capital punishment has lost any claim to ethical acceptability anywhere else in the Western industrialized world. Flaws such as racial bias are ultimately insignificant (in fact, whites receive the death penalty slightly more often than blacks overall, and the race of the defendant is of much less statistical relevance than that of the victim, according to research by Smith College scholars published...
Unfortunately, under the less restrictive leave policy instituted by Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby in December, such regulation has been forgotten. Consequently, the English department is likely to experience a scheduling nightmare next year as 15 of the department’s 35 professors flee the Yard for at least one semester in what can only be described as a mass exodus...
Both the CASAH report and the repeal of the corroboration rule should be approved, but in order for these measures to be implemented effectively, the Faculty cannot afford to rubber-stamp these measures without critical debate. The lessons of last year’s fiasco cannot be forgotten...