WHEN Bill Trautman walked away from his co-op apartment for the last time in September, he was closing the door on nearly half a century of memories.
Maybe it meant a kind of closure — a definitive end to the accumulated weight of sadness and nostalgia that Bern and I had both carried under the pressure of a half-century of memories.
On a steamy night this week, several scouts from Troop 15, their fathers and their scoutmaster rented a truck, pulled up to the Jewish Community Center here and loaded tents, camp stoves, tarpaulins and a half-century of memories.
So, the Germans themselves had a century of memories of horrible destruction from whenever they tried to get together.
When Pinter came to adapt Proust's À la Recherche du Temps Perdu for the cinema - published as The Proust Screenplay and never filmed, although it was later staged - he was also to grapple with the greatest 20th-century treatment of memory.
When Pinter came to adapt Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu for the cinema - published as The Proust Screenplay and never filmed although it was later staged - he was also to grapple with the greatest 20th-century treatment of memory.
Much 20th-century philosophical discussion of memory addressed its status as a source of knowledge, either in the context of general sceptical concerns about knowledge of the past, or in investigating criteria for the reliability of particular memory beliefs (Owens 1999; and see the entry on epistemological problems of memory).
In the seven towns and 250 villages of Saxon Land in southern Transylvania, no less than 90% of the German-speaking population packed its bags and committed eight centuries of history to memory.
But few visitors who tour this quarter realize that the place that most sweepingly evokes six tumultuous centuries of Venetian Jewish memory is neither in the ghetto nor even on the main islands of Venice.
More than two centuries later, the mechanisms of memory storage and retrieval are the most intensively studied phenomena in the brain sciences.
