Word: forgottenness
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...behind a note: "Have a nice day. From Damage Inc." Days after the attack, the classrooms at the school were still soaked in thick blood. Surveying the carnage, a Uruzgan elder said, "The U.S. must be punished for what they did in this room." Even mistakes aren't easily forgotten...
...month appealed the dismissal. All along, the Mormon church has tried to keep the scandal at arm's length--Hinckley says he had instructed the church to remain strictly "neutral" in every aspect of the Olympics. The hope is that by the opening ceremonies, the scandal will be largely forgotten...
Ethereally beautiful and wonderfully anachronistic, daguerreotypy is an art of an earlier age. Founded by its namesake, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, it was the Victorian-era precursor to photography, but has since largely been forgotten and its products mainly lost. In something of a resurrection, daguerreotypy is the subject of an exhibit, “A Curious and Ingenious Art: Reflections on Daguerreotypes at Harvard,” at the Fogg Art Museum...
Zinn spoke on “Writing about Emma Goldman” to about forty attendees at the Murray Center of the Radcliffe Institute as part of their Brown Bag Lunch Series last week. An anarchist and staunch feminist, Goldman herself is arguably more forgotten than she deserves, and mainstream accounts fail to portray the richness of her character. Zinn’s speech was filled with innumerable digressions—often self-deprecating asides tinged with his dry humor—designed to illuminate her life but shaped by his perspective...
...most poignant articles of late was a piece for The Nation. The New York Times had recently finished its “Portraits of Grief” series, devoted to portrayals of the personalities who died in the Sept. 11 attacks and might have otherwise been forgotten. Pain was converted from statistics to individual people who we could connect with and believe in and reach out to; yet the media’s coverage of civilian deaths in Afghanistan was washed out by numbers and blanketed by stereotyped “evil.” Zinn wrote...