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It has fine grayish-white sand, and the swells that enter it break suddenly into small waves that roll gently and then recede, with little undertow.
Yet this phenomenon mysteriously rights itself the further we recede in time.
With the rancorous infighting that dominated Congress in the period 1865 to 1870, the relevance of nationhood began to recede.
Do they recede into nonsense?
In the introduction, I point out that historically, Jewish memory--even religious memory--has been selective: Events that seem to contemporaries to point up a useful contemporary lesson are incorporated into collective memory; those that don't seem to teach useful lessons recede, though they may be recovered later, as perceptions change about what lessons are useful.