Word: amnesia
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...left behind. Two weeks at the seashore appear, in memory, as a floodlit Oz. The first airplane ride might have been to Venus. The early hours spent with radio, TV and films are the foundation of adult imagination. Yet when children grow up, they suffer some sad amnesia of taste. How else could former kids provide television programs designed to do nothing with time but kill itas if, in Thoreau's phrase, it were possible to kill time without injuring eternity? From the moment it was old enough to earn money, U.S. television has been squandering the country...
...fever. As a result, the list of the biggest percentage gainers since May is dominated by the names of Indonesian and Canadian oil producers, mobile-home builders and unclassifiable "special situation" issues (see box). To some Wall Streeters, this development suggests nothing so much as a case of mass amnesia among individual and institutional investors who, they fear, have forgotten that speculative issues took the worst beating during the December 1968-May 1970 bear market. "When people are hungry," says Vice President Bradbury K. Thurlow of Hoppin, Watson & Co., "they go into volatile stocks...
...topic for a Ph.D. And you can imagine what they will do to Yiddish. They will bring up every book-good or bad every manuscript, and write dissertations about it." Singer belives the Jews will remember Yiddish. "Jewish people suffer from all kinds of sicknesses," he said. "But amnesia is not one of them. Our trouble is that we remember too much...