Word: forgot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...balcony; and the following evening when he drove in an open sedan to Rome's Gemelli Clinic to visit a friend, Bishop Andre-Marie Deskur, who was recovering from a heart attack. He made some remarks to the crowd at the hospital, but when he was finished he forgot to impart the apostolic blessing; an escorting prelate had to remind him to do it. At that point, John Paul II gave another glimpse of the warmth and humanity that helped win him the election. His face crinkling in a smile, he said, "I guess even a Pope has to learn...
...book. The Ellen Jamesians are women who have cut out their tongues in order to remember the case of Ellen James. Ellen James was an 11-year-old girl who was raped; her rapists then cut out her tongue to prevent her from describing them. What they of course forgot was that Ellen James could write. She wrote descriptions of her assailants, and they were caught. Later she comes to live with Garp, and develops into something of a real writer. But she doesn't care much about the Ellen Jamesians; imagine, cutting out your own tongue...
...events of the past six months have not helped things. John Havlicek retired, and in so doing, stripped away the last vestiges of a classier era. Bill Walton uncovered Nixonesque medical practices in Portland and was brave enough to make them public. And in case you forgot, the Washington Bullets defeated the Seattle Supersonics with a best-forgotten cast of characters for the league championship...
...well as starred in the movie, just don't seem to know how to tap the possible sources of humor. The laughs are too easy, too cheap, too shallow--it seems as if they got high one day and wrote up the movie in a couple of hours, but forgot to double check and see if it was funny when they regained their normal states of consciousness. All the obvious jokes are there--people stumbling around, people eating huge amounts of food due to "munchies," stoned people in a car swallowing all their drugs to prevent the police from finding...
Stephen Wilson '81, a friend and classmate, said yesterday, "Brad's personality made him exceptional. You forgot the fact that he was handicapped when you were with him. His personality remained unchanged, always friendly, optimistic and outgoing...