While several of his acts as premier had consequences extending well beyond his term, today he is largely forgotten, though he experienced a brief resurgence in name recognition in 2007.
Now Mr. Khoury, 65, gray-haired and bedridden, admits ruefully that he has largely forgotten the language he spoke with his own mother.
But Allen's fans say he is largely forgotten because, unlike Bob Hope, Jack Benny, George Burns and Edgar Bergen, he did not make the transition to television after World War II.
By the time he won the Nobel Prize in 1974 he was largely forgotten by the public and marginalized within his profession.
He was largely forgotten and already living in quiet retirement when he unintentionally catapulted himself into the limelight in an Argentinian television interview, shown in April 1998, by admitting that he had been a commandant at Jasenovac.
He had largely forgotten about that fight until a phone call came decades later and he heard a familiar voice.
Soon he was largely forgotten.
In fact, he is largely forgotten.
He died, largely forgotten, in 1982.
But he was largely forgotten outside Texas.
