Word: forgottenness
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...damage from Hurricane Ike alone. In light of the magnitude of these numbers, the additional offer of a mere $9.5 million by USAID to hurricane relief in the island nations rings hollow. Americans, so preoccupied by the fear of damage to New Orleans yet again, sadly seem to have forgotten the many Caribbean islands literally in the path of the storm. This domestic anxiety may, in part, be attributed to the remaining fears about our own disaster relief preparedness. The United States’ near avoidance of disaster with Hurricanes Gustav and Ike has renewed speculation into a lingering question...
...Small, all-but-forgotten towns like Arbroath capture in microcosm the tensions facing modern Scotland. Arbroath's hearts are tugged to the past, to tales of sea-faring greatness and also the Scottish identity-shaping myths of thwarted nationhood and lost sovereignty. An abbey overlooking the harbor holds the Declaration of Arbroath, a letter signed by local noblemen in 1320 demanding independence for Scotland. (The document is said to have inspired America's own Declaration of Independence). The dominant political party in Arbroath is the Scottish National Party (SNP), a left-leaning party that wishes to declare independence from...
...Christian charity toward a reader starved for incident. It's a strange thing for a novel to be full of so much wisdom and craft and still be so unsatisfying. It's as if Robinson somehow understands everything about people--their astounding strength, their pathetic weakness--but has forgotten something essential about readers...
...This is why I came out here: It is a forgotten place. Forgotten, at least, by the tourists and academics of the stylish sort, whose Adirondack lodges and Urban Institutes largely bypass the dead ends of this nation. It is in forgotten places, however, where there is the most to be remembered. In one conversation, I learned about how Harry Truman was the only good president the country ever had. In another, I learned that the Earth is 6,000 years old. In still another, I learned about the best way to can apple butter...
...risen to the top of the contemporary art world - in April, he broke a record for a mainland Chinese painting when one of his works fetched $8.2 on auction. His subject matter deals invariably with the consequences of modernity, depicting the forgotten faces of peasants in the Tibetan desert, or families displaced by the rising waters of the massive Three Gorges damn project. He's also done portraits of prostitutes in Thailand, and high school students in Boston. Says Morgan Morris, the Rome-based curator of this latest project: "Every time there's something coming to a head, he captures...