Word: forbearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evidence does not support this assertion, although Simenon, who provides reams of it, never realizes what a telling witness he is for his own prosecution. "Did I have periods of snobbery?" he asks his children and concludes that "I can frankly answer no." Yet he cannot forbear reminding them of all the impressive people and places they have experienced, thanks solely to their relationship to him. While he was hobnobbing with crowned heads and the likes of Chaplin, Cocteau and Jean Renoir, he always made sure that the physicians who watched over him and his growing brood were "world famous...