Word: forgottenness
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...must stay up all night afraid his drug-addicted wife will accidentally burn down the house with a cigarette. Now Jones is an older man, forced out of his job at a newspaper and left alone in a world where “He’s forgotten but not yet gone.” In, “Zak and Sara,” the heroine foresees the eventual rise of rave music and drugs while listening to her boyfriend play tired, Whitesnake wanna-be riffs on his guitar. And “Rockin’ The Suburbs?...
...Sara has eased up on her kooky fate-talk but has filled the void by moving to San Francisco and becoming engaged to a bizarre Yanni-like musician. Jonathan, still in Manhattan, is about to marry a sweet-enough girl from a generic family. Neither of them, however, has forgotten That Night; and as their weddings approach, both of them set out to find their ‘soul mate’ (whether they’re prompted by a genuine urge to reclaim the fantasy, or just by cold feet, isn’t quite clear). In this pursuit...
...brutality of Christendom's efforts to conquer the Holy Land from the Muslims in the Crusades of the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries is not forgotten in the Middle East (making President Bush's early use of the word crusade to describe America's antiterror effort an unfortunate choice). An even greater sore is the sense that, in the centuries since, so much dignity has been lost, and to an inferior people. In Islamic belief, Muhammad is God's last prophet; he built upon the revelations of Moses and Jesus to propound a superior, perfect faith. But the world that...
...sight of priest and rabbi, monk and imam, started me thinking. It would be a triumph if a new unity came out of this act of hatred. It's already occurring politically: witness the current bipartisanship in Washington. I wonder whether the many arbitrary distinctions between people could be forgotten once and for all. If we could emphasize the links among us instead of the divisions, then I believe we will have foiled the terrorists. JENNIFER FRANK Morristown...
...Freedom, that may be the first umbrella that Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum has ever shared with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. As head of Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist is ordinarily one of Washington's most high-profile conservative activists. But he hasn't forgotten that during the 1995 battle, Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick suggested that the new powers could be used against militant tax evaders. "Prosecutors always want more power," says Norquist. "We need to slow this down...