Word: forgot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hoped that under the new rules for the choice of electives, some form of general examinations... on the principal field of study will be more commonly required." For the new president, the suggestion was a cautiously worded one, but it was only the beginning. Lowell fully believed that students forgot most of what they had learned in a course as soon as the final examination was out of sight, and he was determined to put a stop to such academic waste...
Lowell's regime brought reform to both the housing and the academic programs for undergraduates. But despite his preoccupation with College reform, Lowell never forgot the University's relationship to the "outside world." The same conviction which made him fight to restore an atmosphere of intellectual excitement within the College, made him fight to keep the University in close contact with the "outside." Above all, he believed that complacency could lead an institution only to decay. Lowell, who liked some controversy because it kept issues alive and people alert, wanted to make Harvard not an ingrown "ivory tower...
...saying his sister had tried to teach him to dance long ago, but "my legs just wouldn't move properly." The music was rather slow and dignified, the polkas, waltzes and 19th century Russian ballroom dances that the Czar's court once favored. President Kliment Voroshilov forgot his 78 years to sail off across the floor with Ekaterina Furtseva, the only woman member of the ruling Presidium. Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan flashed gaily around with one commissar's wife after another. It was a long way from the barricades...
...fellow who was dancing with a rather attractive girl, the type you like to dance with but still you don't get cut in on right away. The dancing came rather naturally, in fact it was fun, but Dudley could not think of anything to say. He forgot everything he had planned...
...shock soon gave way to pleased surprise. As the performance unfolded, Laughton's Lear never forgot that his was a family tragedy; even the first-act simpering made sense, for it showed a fool-father truly stupid enough to be gulled by his ugly daughters, Regan and Goneril. Then, as the king wandered mad through the storm, deserted by his daughters, the performance departed the norm again. Laughton's king was strangely calm and compelling. Rarely was he moved to the familiar, passion-torn shrieks of other Lears. His fantastic monologues with himself sounded almost conversational...