Word: amnesia
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...close, the process of generational amnesia and painful relearning seems wasteful; it leaves the countryside strewn with all kinds of debris - dead fathers surrounded by the or phan parricides who exuberantly did them in but do not even know yet how to use a spoon. However, as Albert Einstein once observed, "God is subtle, but he is not malicious...
American sports fans will have a curious amnesia about the 1980 games. Not only were the U.S. athletes at home, but television coverage was patchy as well. There were snippets on the evening news and slightly longer reports on the morning talk shows, but, altogether, coverage was only a fraction of the 150 hours NBC had planned before it withdrew from its contract to televise the games as part of the U.S. protest...
...Urfirer and his fellow organizers seem to have forgotten (amnesia perhaps?) the basic requirement for a successful concert, that is, hiring a band that people will pay money to see. The choice of a trivial, second rate group of musicians to headline a major concert is baffling. Why, when Brown can attract acts like Little Feat and Elvis Costello, do we have to settle for a nowhere act like Pousette-Dart Band. (Who knows who we will have next time. Petula Clark? Or maybe even Sean Cassidy...