Word: oblivion
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...they loathe their former wives, directing a combination of need and hostility toward the women who drift in and out of their new lives, they are, as Mickey puts it, "involved in a variety of pharmaceutical experiments," which, as Eddie completes the thought, "test the American dream of oblivion." Another way of putting it is that their lives are full of incident and devoid of coherence...
...Alexander '69), but also to new issues and struggles which arise from the same consciousness of concern as in '69:"...my views on the likelihood of a nuclear obscenity are essentially unchanged...Perhaps each of our efforts over the next five years, mobilized by a common interest in avoiding oblivion, can make a difference. We believed it could and did in 1969." (David L. Ach '69)Harvard Strike T-shirt, now in the Harvard archives...
...self-confidence brings back other voices that sounded that way at the beginning and sounded different at the end. "I wanted to get into show business," said Venus Ramey (1944). "I thought the contest would be a good entree. It is, all right: an entrée into oblivion...
...called pacification law was the third attempt by the military to impose national amnesia. Last November it disingenuously urged Argentines to show "greatness of spirit" so as to "attain national unity." Translation: the next civilian government should refrain from investigating military crimes. That clumsy ploy was ridiculed into oblivion. Last April the junta tried again, publishing a "final document" in which it simply declared that those who disappeared were legally and administratively dead. Explaining that any "excesses" committed by the government were purely in the line of duty, the government did not bother even to account for individual cases. Again...
...worst fate an artist can suffer, late in life, is being famous for a single work. The worst after death is oblivion. Grant Wood (1881-1942), the American regionalist painter whose retrospective of 84 drawings, prints and paintings opened last week at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, suffered both. There was a time when millions of Americans who would never have looked inside a museum knew, from reproduction, one painting of Wood's, American Gothic: he with the pitchfork and faded bibbed overalls, she of the dowdy mien and disapproving eye, in front...