Word: oblivion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hyphenated groups we are going to study. Under such a system a Richmond-born-Episcopalian of English stock from a family with an income of $12,000 would be declared below average if his Binet score was below 120. A score of 100 would relegate him to success quotient oblivion as a low normal...
...Britain's Cabinet, "and Nixon is the new statesman." "It's true that I have been critical of Mr. Nixon," Freeman admits, not retracting a single word of what he then wrote. Yet he is moved and impressed by the "new" Nixon's astonishing comeback from oblivion. "I think a man who does this," Freeman observed, "has a quality of guts and courage and steadfastness of purpose which is part of the bedrock of statesmanship." If steadfastness is a criterion, then Freeman, now 54, is no statesman. His mutant career has led through the House of Commons...
Moviewatchers left clutching balloon strings wince, wrinkle, and cough vacantly into their scarves. The meaning of what is done is obscure. And pretty silly. Unknown, Andy's Gang never makes it big and slips into a proud, if arrogant, oblivion...
...over the recommendations of its own Committee on Educational Policy to adopt the resolution of the Student-Faculty Advisory Committee, the Faculty showed itself sensitive to student opinion and willing to break with tradition. The decision will strengthen the SFAC, which only a few months ago appeared beaded for oblivion. And most importantly, it strikes a blow against the privileged position of the military forces at Harvard, something which the equivocal and vague CEP recommendation would not have done...
...Sobell had been planning to flee behind the Iron Curtain after six years of spying for the Soviet Union. Sobell vigorously denied the accusation, but his trial for espionage resulted in a 30-year jail sentence. Morton Sobell was soon forgotten by most Americans. Last week, a revenant from oblivion, he stepped off a bus in Manhattan, free on parole after serving 17 years and nine months in federal prisons. He was still proclaiming his innocence...