Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...1950s, he recalls, a professor emeritus "of vast age" disappeared into the stacks with coat and hat to read. Sometime later, one library staffer found just the coat and hat where the professor had been. "The rumors flew hot and heavy," Bryant remembers, but the professor had merely forgotten his things. Incidents of theft rattle his memory further. While Bryant was still a student, the story is told, a man stole thousands of books from the collection. The culprit was later caught and in each of the books, Bryant explains, a second bookplate now states who stole the volume...
Foreign Aid Lives It's a joy to see the scarred banner of foreign aid raised again [March 26]. Bat tered from the right in the '50s, from the left in the '60s, and forgotten by the Me Generation, it has somehow survived...
...expansionary process, the Boston Athletic Association (BAA), which oversees the Marathon, seems to have forgotten where its home is and has trampled on some of its local supporters...
...that can replace the pure bliss of the first round of spring. The golfer sets out with each of his footprints showing distinctly on the dewy, untouched fairway, confident that he will strike the ball flawlessy for all the shanks and duck hooks of the previous year have been forgotten...
Tall, stately John Connally of Texas "looks like a President." So wrote stocky, rumpled James Reston in the New York Times a couple of weeks ago. Since the assertion was right out of the Political Writer's Handy Kit of Solemn Banalities, it could be conscientiously forgotten. It probably will not be, so the question lingers: What does it mean...