Word: forget
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Comaneci's achievements seemed so effortless that it was easy to forget she was not merely doing what comes naturally. Although her debut in senior international competition came only last year, when she leaped out of Rumanian obscurity to take the European Championship away from the Soviet Union's five-time winner, Ludmilla Turishcheva, 23, Nadia had been preparing for last week's moment of golden triumph for more than half her life...
That quintessential 19th century optimist W.E. Henley-who can ever forget or forgive him?-wrote the unflappable lines that still seem to embroider a motto on his age: "I am the master of my fate;/ I am the captain of my soul." The world, it appeared in those innocent times, belonged to the romantic individualist with a whim of iron. Even pessimists like Schopenhauer and Nietzsche celebrated the indomitable will. Not to mention Horatio Alger...
...restrictive pass system may seem reasonable to those giving out the credentials. The DNC can risk offending some college reporters who have two months to cool off before they file. Regardless of the satisfaction derived from getting in, however, it will be a long time before I forget hearing that nominating roll call filter up seven levels to the balcony where I was waiting 25 deep to get a 20-minute pass...
...will be hard-pressed to repeat her '72 victory. She is still not fully recovered from a vertebral injury suffered last summer. A masseur will treat her daily in Canada. She recently observed: "In gymnastics, if you don't feel right, you might as well forget performing." Last month her training pace at the Palace of Sports in Minsk was up to five hours a day and her weight was down 7 lbs. (to 103), thanks to a fresh fruit and vegetable diet. Turishcheva has never looked more determined. Says she: "Nothing matters but first place in Montreal...
This may all seem like water under the proverbial bridge. But don't forget that the Republicans are spending thousands of dollars on negative research about Carter and that Jerry Brown's success in the final primaries might indicate a growing backlash against Carter's fuzziness on the issues and his own past...