Word: forgottenness
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...Anonymity” recalls a time when the majority of books were published anonymously. He reclaims these authors’ private lives from obscurity, awakening afresh their dreams of fame or their longing for privacy and their motives for anonymity that have been forgotten in the intervening centuries.Mullan begins his book by seeking patterns to explain the psychology behind various author’s motives for publishing without attribution. His case studies read like a Who’s Who of English literature—from anonymous authors like Jane Austen, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and Walter Scott to those...
...Facile storytelling can be forgiven, though—or at least forgotten. The film’s cardinal sin is in squandering the opportunity to implement footage of the Hajj in an interesting way. It’s clear that any potentially substantive use for this exclusive footage was buried while convincing the Saudis to allow the filming of the pilgrimage at all (especially of the Kaaba, where non-Muslims are forbidden). The segments of this footage are left, mostly, until the end, when Ibn’s experience is compared with that of modern pilgrims, to show the striking...
...Italy's gerontocracy and unwritten party rules co-opt the young with the false promise that they should wait for a few years and their turn will come around. By the time they do finally step up, once aspiring (and inspiring) leaders have long since lost their mojo and forgotten the new ideas they once had. (See pictures of Italy's good life...
Your singling out of the story of the shooting of Abed Rabu family members by an Israeli soldier, true or not, is biased, disturbing and harmful. The constant shelling of the towns and settlements in southern Israel seems forgotten. Wouldn't it have been fairer to juxtapose your story with one on the casualties and trauma suffered by Israeli civilians during the years of shelling? Avigdor Reiss, JERUSALEM, ISRAEL...
...lost in the debate on the current stimulus plan is any mention of personal responsibility. That lack of responsibility on Main Street, Wall Street and Capitol Hill is what got us into this mess to begin with. Sure, we all have the right to rise, but we have forgotten that with rights come responsibilities. Jason Peirce, CALABASAS, CALIF...