Make them both past, or both present: "I wanted to be a ballet dancer" (past tense), "but I preferred politics" (also past tense).
There have been several attempts to make them in the past.
They also need to know on-by, in which you make them go past a distraction, treating them when they do.
"Hitler merely had to utter the word 'peace' in a speech to arouse the newspapers to enthusiasm, to make them forget all his past deeds, and desist from asking why, after all, Germany was arming so madly," Zweig wrote.
Don't let us forget, Hilary, about the figures from the past: make them all real again for us, living, breathing, tangible and comprehensible.
"But you're also seeing more pockets of poverty than in the past that make them more like the city".
He even cleared his office walls of pictures of his one-time heroine Mrs. Thatcher to stop colleagues from mooning over the party's triumphal past and make them focus on the possibilities of a future under him.
Despite regulations that threaten to strip the newly formulated versions of the historic smells she loves of the chemicals that make them work, she describes the past few years as seminal for perfume; seminal and, well, semen-scented.
While these other issues are certainly important, they should not distract enough attention to allow Trump to install cabinet members whose conflicts of interest and past practices make them unqualified for their positions.
The war is getting further and further behind us, and people are developing new and alternative ways to contextualise the events of the past, to make them fit the present.
