Re "In the 'Stroke Belt,' Erosion of Memory Is More Likely Too" (July 5): Although environmental impact is listed among the many variables that may obscure the causes of stroke and memory loss, there is no mention of the widespread casual use of insecticides in the South at least until the early 1960s.
Gibb asserts that Until the Quiet Comes is "an important and significant album" partly for engaging with "grand narratives" such as "the shifting identities of both humans and electronic music forms in a digital age", and "the internet's erosion of memory processes".
Back when Moyers spoke with Susan Jacoby about "the ignorance and erosion of historical memory that makes serious deceptions possible and plausible," she cited as an example that, "If we don't know what our Constitution says about the separation of powers then it certainly affects the way we decide all kinds of public issues".
Certainly, I found it very cathartic to try and imagine how my mum might have been feeling as she faced the erosion of her memories.
Leaving his sickbed, Christopher Hitchens is in fine fettle at Slate and takes aim at the man who is responsible "for the steady erosion of the real memory of the civil rights movement, which is not safe when left in the keeping of God's bigmouths and tree-shakers".
But one of the many points made by this exhilarating theatrical kaleidoscope is that we live in a world where information bombardment is in danger of leading to atrophy of memory, erosion of privacy and decay of feeling.
Half of its 37,000 employees have been with the company fewer than three years -- resulting in some erosion of Corning's collective memory of its operations.
"Their aim is the destruction of the dead's only 'grave,' that is, our memory, and the erosion of all awareness of the crime itself.
The scrambling and internal editing of memory becomes a primordial force essentially the show's villain (besides Jessica Biel)—as the show ties erosion of remembered lives into the form and function of sitcom narratives and cartoon imaginings.
"As soon as we become tolerant to this kind of survey, we will see the start of the erosion of the nation, and of our genetic memory," he said.
Add to that our tendency to embellish the truth or our often flawed memory, and the natural erosion of facts that occur when stories are told through the Whisper-Down-the-Lane generations.
