Word: recollect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...summer of 1989, as I recollect, the kind of swampy, sweaty Washington day that makes cheap, polyester, short-sleeve shirts stick to the bulging middles of the bureaucrats. Edmund Morris and I ducked into the coolness of the F Street Club. Edmund had driven over from his Capitol Hill town house in his new Jaguar sedan. But even the soothing luxury of the club didn't seem to console Edmund...
...summit meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev in Iceland is so vivid as to make it seem Morris sat with the two leaders. In fact, Morris admits he was not there; he went to Iceland later and, relying on interviews, "enjoyed the scribe's traditional advantage of being able to recollect emotions in tranquility." Morris' brilliant portrait of Teddy Roosevelt's rise to the presidency was of course built from research embellished by his imagination...
Thank you for this memoir of the 20th century. As I approach my seventh decade, I can recollect much of it, but I needed your review of influential people to refresh my memories. I shall keep this copy for my grandchildren. JUDY EISENMAN Quincy, Calif...
...very necessary for the children to recollect and depict what they saw before they left Kosovo," Pryor said...
...ESSAY, Dec. 7], in which he praised men's habit of saying little to their pals. It conjured up an image of cavemen at a time when language was little more than a series of grunts. How dull the friendship Rosenblatt described must have been if he "cannot recollect a single idea exchanged." What emerges from his description is a sort of emotional paralysis. A relationship between two people, men or women, is only as good as the communication between them. MICHAEL SOUTHON Aragua, Venezuela