Word: oblivion
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...published for the first time under the title Consciousness in Concord, the "lost journal" is a minor tribute to the inspired eccentric that was Henry Thoreau. In miniature, the book shares the fascination of the Journal as a whole, which was somehow conceived as alms for oblivion-Thoreau's bribe to posterity to pay more attention to him than his Concord neighbors and writing peers...
...industry dreams aloud of a breakthrough when 1,000,000 color sets will be in use. When that great day comes, the industry believes that black-and-white TV will gradually be trampled into oblivion by the noisy stampede of setmakers, networks, advertisers and public toward the elusive rainbow...
...winter, the skies opened suddenly, and hail and rain swept across the rolling hills of light brown grass. That day citizens of Southern Rhodesia, going to the polls from the Limpopo to the Zambezi, voted Garfield Todd, their Prime Minister for five years until last February, into political oblivion. His United Rhodesia Party, upholding the zeal for racial "partnership" that earned him the name of "Kaffir lover" and cost him his office, failed to win a single seat...
...alert for signs of old trappers who sometimes die on the trail and are eaten by their dogs; for pillagers who ransack the remote cabins, where a food cache is a guarantee of life for the inhabitant; for the hardy men who are inexplicably swallowed up in the unmapped oblivion...
...Manhattan's Astor Hotel with a plain-spoken report on the recession ("Not all our economic troubles are over by any means") and some strong ideas about what business and labor could do to help the economy. He nominated a "whole kit and caboodle" of economic notions "for oblivion." Items...