Word: oblivion
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...making at least a partial effort to put its own history in perspective: Stalin, while not fully rehabilitated, is no longer treated as though he did not exist. In fact, his name was cheered last week when Brezhnev mentioned the late dictator in a Moscow speech. Marshal Zhukov, in oblivion for almost eight years since Khrushchev fired him as Defense Minister, also appeared, and was photographed in full military regalia last week. A Soviet law journal published an astonishing article recently, suggesting that the time had come for Soviet voters to have not one name but a choice of candidates...
...Durham and Jones is Nat Love, an ebullient egotist who claimed to have been the original and genuine Deadwood Dick. Whether or not he was an authentic folk hero, Love's biography typifies in many ways the story of all Negro cowboys who faded out of history into oblivion and stereotype. After a gaudily romantic career of herding cattle, rounding up mustangs, and getting drunk, Nat Love surrendered to the modern world when the railroads finally mechanized the cattle business around 1890. In that year, acting with grotesque symbolism, Love "traded his cowpony for an iron horse." He became...
...Wild One was a slice-of-seedy-life picture about a pack of vicious, swaggering motorcycle hoods called the Black Rebels. The characters were too overdrawn and the violence they wrought was too unrelieved to en gage the credulity of its audience, so the film passed quickly into oblivion...
Your most startling comment prophesies the failure of Dr. King's leadership and his consequent slipping into oblivion. The winning of a Nobel Peace Prize is a strange prelude to such obsolescence...
...seem to keep reviewing each other. Sanford M. Unger's is the most informative; the others can be ignored. The most frightening kind of experimental fooling-around mentioned in the book is Eric Kast's work in Chicago. Kast decided to send 128 doomed cancer patients into hopped-up oblivion by giving them LSD without warning or previous instruction. He then calmly graphed the depression and "fear and panic" reactions, hallucinations and morbid fears of death...