Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made me an orphan. You attack the logic of religion and laugh, at cocktail parties, over totem poles and pillars. You dismiss mystics as paranoids and prophets as crackpots. You pride yourselves as Men of Logic when your understanding is mechanical. In your anxiety to reason, you have for gotten how to feel...
Yours is a motel civilization, from gentlemen farmers to university professors. Your literature has standardized the Bible and propitiated the cult of the Word. Your art makes no sense and your music is too loud. You cannot speak to one another and you have for gotten who you are. You have only dictionaries and manuals and wireless sets--tuned in to nothing and listening attentively to babble...
...politics do not make drama. If we must be profoundly conscious of the world in which the Lomans live and move, it is as human beings that they interest and concern us. Director Langton seems to have gotten to the root of the personal relationships of the play. One can almost see it schematized in his mind: Linda--Mrs. Loman--at the center as the fulcrum and focus of the action, and perhaps in the larger sense the symbol of Woman as the base of stability in the family, her husband Willy at one end of the lever, and Biff...
Secondary education in the United States has always been infected with the so-called "democratic spirit," in both its good and its bad aspects. Although concern for the common man led America to institute one of the first universal public school systems in the world, quantity has unusually gotten the best of quality in the public concern...
...offspring of '33 were evidently still in very high spirits. "We've been keeping them in their rooms pretty well," the night counselor sighed. "Only one or two have gotten out, and we caught them when they were trying to get back...