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...recognize that my political future might, because of this action, go down into oblivion," said Gramm, 40, who was elected to his third term in November. "I do not know whether this is a wise decision but I do believe that it is an honest...
...Schwartz's Dec. 16 article, "Cycles of Oblivion," like most of the articles in the West that deal with Namibia, tends to distort rather than present the truth. Ms. Schwartz seems confused about the legitimacy of the name Namibia. This territory has been called Namibia by the Namibians for centuries. Let us not forget that the Germans, who used to cut off the hands of local villagers, only controlled the territory for 50 years. After their defeat in World War I, they left not only a legacy of maiming, but the illegitimate name of South-West Africa as well. This...
...discarded when their producers found more malleable girls with the same sound. Even at Motown, where the bosses were black, a team of dream girls like the Supremes could be treated as if they were balky students at a finishing school. Few got rich; most soon returned to gray oblivion...
...Barbarosa lying in his grave in a bandit campsite, blood seeping through his shirt from a bullet hole. But as the hard dry earth is almost completely shoveled over him, he shifts, jumps out, and is off again to renew his own myth. Similarly, as the commercial vultures of oblivion have been circling over the Western as a film genre, it too has suddenly shaken off the grave dust, at least provisionally, thanks to Schepisi...
...Eisenhower's Administration gathered to toast the general's 92nd birthday and the 30th anniversary of his election as President. Even some of those who had been closest to Ike were surprised to hear a former Harvard professor, William B. Ewald, report that Eisenhower had come from oblivion to ninth place on the list of great Presidents compiled by historians. "The more I think about it," said Roemer McPhee, who was a young lawyer in Ike's White House, "the more I believe that President Eisenhower's indispensable attribute was his restraint. He never used...