Forgive my fading memory, in which military service did Reiner serve?
The only other year in recent memory in which it sold out was 1999.
Psychologists call this flashbulb memory in which a particularly vivid event burns itself into our memories like a snapshot.
One was a test for working memory, in which the subject is shown simple arithmetic problems, like 7+5 = 12.
Stalin's assault, as with many dictators, is on cultural memory, in which brute force is used to force a harsh new reality on the citizens.
This could be the only political environment in recent memory in which it actually helps to have spent 20 years in the U.S. Senate.
Silence had a labyrinth of forlorn memory, in which light bounced off a rippled silver floor, throwing shadows and shimmering clouds on to a plain canvas ceiling.
It is at the heart of the book's main theme of involuntary memory, in which an experience such as smell or a taste unexpectedly unlocks a past recollection.
"In London," he writes, "the past is a form of occluded memory, in which the presence of earlier generations is felt rather than seen.
The protests over the missing Ayotzinapa students, Paloma told me, were the first in recent memory in which students of the highly selective Esmeralda had fully participated.
He also compares it to an old boarding-school memory in which his limbs feel impossibly weighty when he wakes from his sleep.
