Word: forgottenness
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What they've forgotten is that the advantage of a final club never lay in its ability to make you popular. Today, they have become the Harvard man's passport to a social life. But the societies' principal purpose was to provide its members with good company and a good meal. The Porcellian was founded in 1791 by a group of friends who decided they wanted to eat roast pig together every month...
Despite the new titles, Eliot House has not forgotten its old-school past--its computerized card catalog is still stored on an antiquated Macintosh Classic...
...representatives but having to fight hard to win the requisite Democratic support is a reminder that even in these days of New Democrat/Compassionate Conservative centrism, the formula that casts the GOP as the party of business and the Democrats as the party of labor hasn't been entirely forgotten. Indeed, while George W. Bush has firmly endorsed China's entry into the WTO; Vice President Gore, mindful of Senator Bradley's challenge from the left, has waffled on the issue, hoping to keep the AFL-CIO on board for his nomination by promising at one point to renegotiate the terms...
...Loeb Ex is a dark, black space and A World Without History feels like perpetual night; it is crowded with guilt, suspicion and bleak hope. The title itself refers to the wishful thought that personal histories could be forgotten, uttered midway through the play. It could just as well have been titled, "a world without guilt," except that the word history evokes the epic complications of the plot...
...remember the name of someone we just met--or know well--getting upset when we can't recall where we put our keys or left the car in the parking lot or whether we mailed the phone bill. We walk into a room and halt in midstride, the purpose forgotten. These annoying things happen to most of us eventually, and for a simple reason. Just as the body changes over time, so does the brain. "On any intelligence or memory test," says University of Chicago gerontologist Michael Roizen, "we lose, on average, 5% of our capability for every decade after...