Word: forgottenness
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Women of my generation have to thank Britney Spears for at least one fashion coup: she has given the country amnesia about how we dressed as kids. Blinded by her bare midriff, we have apparently forgotten about our own fashion choices--the hot pants, micro-minis, platform shoes, crop tops, tank tops and hip huggers so tight we had to lie down to get them zipped...
...Crimson was. And for the last 128 years, The Crimson has been there to cover these events--large and small, important and trivial, long-remembered and quickly forgotten. As the University changed, The Crimson faithfully recorded each day's news, creating a record that lives to this day. The crumbling, dusty volumes that line the shelves of 14 Plympton St. preserve a wealth of information on our shared past...
...aristocracy. Mrs. Aquino is from landed gentry. Cardinal Sin has an understandable aversion to a President who boasts of mistresses and illegitimate offspring. In the mid-'80s, the Elite and the Church banded together to help organize Manila's masses against Marcos, a moment of triumph they have never forgotten. The fact that a high percentage of Filipinos loved Estrada was exasperating. Even more inconvenient was his grip on the Senate, which seemed to ensure that he would stay in power. The solution: to bring hundreds of thousands of Filipinos onto Manila's streets. But the Philippine polity...
...this is striking, that I have called Harvard my home. In the quiet reflections of this past semester, I have often been taken aback by this thought. After four years, I had forgotten the awe of that notion, one which affected me so deeply when I first arrived, that I could call this place my home. Certainly, Harvard is much more than an educational institution. It holds a significance for the entire world which is singular and awesome. And yet, for a few years, we all call...
...exam was not to go off without a hitch--the registrar, she said, had forgotten to send along blue books. The proctor, who was present at UHS during both exams, had to scrounge around the hospital looking for plain paper...