Word: forget
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...telephone the greatest invention in the history of the world? Forget its existential oppressions (the disruptions, the discontinuities of mind, or, if you want to look for trouble, the horrifying thought of the sheer obliterating noise that would be made if all the telephone conversations of the earth at a given moment were audible at once). All of that is nattering. The telephone, with the fluidities of information that it has enabled, has proved to be a promiscuously, irrepressibly democratic force, a kinetic object with the mysterious purity to change the world. The telephone, like the authority to kill, might...
...have written some very strange columns and some very bad ones, too. However, I have always tried to talk about athletes. Forget about the score; I was more concerned with a player or a coach. Sure, it's not an earth-shattering statement, but it worked...
...think you're immune; no one is. It's rather capricious, this academic anemia. The more you study, the more you forget afterwards...
RETURNING to Cambridge in January for Reading Period can truly broaden horizons, as any Harvard student will confirm. Education is all about broadening horizons, and of course Reading Period is all about education. This year was hard, though. The newspapers would not let us forget how narrow Harvard's horizons are. For the rest of Boston, Reading with a capital R is pronounced not "Reeding" but "Redding." As in Reading, Mass., where Charles and Carol Stuart owned their nice, comfortable suburban home...
...Sometimes we forget what it's like for many of us who were left behind and didn't get to come to this university, whether [they] be political prisoners in Cuba or Chile or migrant workers living in spider holes in Southern California," he said...