Word: forget
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Never mind that almost a quarter of Harvard undergraduates are Jewish, or that many students practice some religion other than Christianity or no religion at all. In the euphoria surrounding the Christmas season, many students and staff seem to forget that there are other denominations around...
...Forget the 18 Prime Ministers, Wellingtons, Pitts and Walpoles: any school that is the ostensible alma mater of James Bond, Tarzan and Lord Peter Wimsey has clearly made a contribution to the world. And the quirkiness of Eton College ensures that it still seems to belong less to life than to Lewis Carroll fiction. The boys wear coats with tails, the teachers are called beaks, and both parties greet one another on the street by simply raising a single index finger. The prefects who sweep into classrooms, gowns billowing, to summon boys to see the headmaster are known as praepostors...
Like all of Hughes' ideas, Home Alone sprang from a small domestic problem. "I was going away on vacation," he says, "and making a list of everything I didn't want to forget. I thought, 'Well, I'd better not forget my kids.' Then I thought, 'What if I left my 10-year-old son at home? What would he do?' " One what-if led to another. Taking a break from packing, Hughes wrote eight pages of notes that developed into the screenplay of Home Alone, which he also produced...
...Forget about trying to gain an NCAA tournament bid. Don't worry about capturing the Ivy League title...
...SPORT: Forget the Super Bowl this year...