Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Living at Harvard, where everything seems to be within walking distance, I had forgotten how dependent our society is on mass transit. This is especially true in New York, where everybody commutes...
Measles was once a disease that just about every child was expected to catch, but since mass immunization began in 1963 it has been practically forgotten. Still, from time to time, small outbreaks continue to paint medical maps with red spots like those of the disease itself. Since last November 1,500 cases have been reported in the Houston area alone, vs. 2,900 in the entire nation all last year. New Jersey last week declared a medical emergency in five counties; 36 cases had come to light in the previous two weeks, and authorities expect "hundreds" more...
...been shot surreptitiously. Luckily, the national company's dance captain, Kevin Joe Jonson, had made notations of the ballet on tattered sheets of paper that he carted around through five marriages. For the Comedy Tonight number from Forum, an original cast member sketched out the business. "Jerry had forgotten about half the jokes," Sondheim says, "and being the inventive man he is, he invented some more. Some of them are even funnier...
...this ridiculous test. Had I felt it was worth the time and effort to pick through the booklets to learn the intricacies of "the script command," I could have spared myself much mental anguish. But it is not worth wasting precious time learning something useless that will soon be forgotten...
...Richardson, his first Washington mentor, recalls it as "marvelously prescient and penetrating," in part because of Darman's gift for dispassionate analysis. Says Richardson: "Dick never allowed his thinking to be colored by how he wished the situation to come out." The tome is now shelved. Darman wants it forgotten. He rebuffed publishers who sought a memoir of his time with Reagan. Reason: a really candid book might limit future opportunities for high office...