Word: amnesiaize
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...urbanized-worse, Americanized-friends seem to make no connections at all even within their own free-floating selves. Like a supercasual Dante, Miss Atwood pronounces sentence upon her generation of lost and damned: "Any one of us could have amnesia for years and the others wouldn't notice...
...need not mean the rhapsodic nonsense of The Greening of America, nor the belligerency of the brass-collar Americans. It could instead produce a new sense of reality. What is needed is a civilian DMZ, where the polarized Americans can gather, a place somewhere be tween the moral amnesia of those who would totally forget the war and those who proclaim a perpetual, self-lacerating mea culpa that would take the place of progress. Perhaps this war has bro ken the rules of history. No one can be sure. It can only be observed that in other times, in other...
...determination with which Zasetsky fought-and still fights-to escape "that know-nothing world of emptiness and amnesia" makes him anything but ordinary. The mystery of his doggedness lies somewhere in the undamaged frontal lobe of his brain. There, at the seat of the personality and emotions, he was able to battle, as Luria says, "with the tenacity of the damned." Writing is Zasetsky's laborious way of thinking. His achievement is that he has managed, after untold agonies and frustrations, to describe his unending confusions with terrible clarity. It would take a lobotomized Samuel Beckett to match...
...fear for the survival of my sanity if Richard Nixon succeeds in his scheme to induce a four-year amnesia in the minds of the voters...
Most patients, fortunately, succeed in flying, recovering physically within a few months after their operations. Some even develop amnesia where the operation's emotional aftermath is concerned. Most, believes Kimball, could recover faster if they could be spared psychological upsets. His studies have shown that advance screening can identify those patients most likely to react badly to open-heart surgery. A complete description of what the patient can expect when he emerges from anesthesia, something few doctors now bother to give, could ease emotional anguish and make his recovery more rapid...