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...Rabelais truly one of those nasty, divisive reformers' Did he dig with the same foot as they pestilent fellow Luther' a dirty-minded man. And as a great despiser of women, if I recollect properly, though it's years since I read his blundering, coarse-fibred romance about the giants. But we mustn't quarrel; we must live together in holy charity. I've seen Dear Clem since last we talked, and he says it's all right for me to stay. I wouldn't fuss him about it if I were you He seems to have great things...
...necessary, as it reminds us where we are and have been, gives us heroes and prototypes, our models and cautions. But the past contains the future as well; that is, whatever was once wished for and realized now resides in the past. One looks back in order to recollect one's hope, not only the defeat of one's hope. Otherwise there would be no new nations anywhere...
...among the faculty and students who were at the University during the 13 days of the Cuban Missile Crisis recall the Soviets' singling out Harvard in official propaganda. Most recollect a campus just as confused and frightened as the rest of the country by the blur of cryptic news reports: U.S. blockade, 80 million potential American victims, rockets in Turkey, the threat to Berlin...
Nicholas can recollect this unique game of catch with Broadway Joe because his father, Dr. James Nicholas, is the orthopedic surgeon for the Jets as well as for the Knicks, Rangers and Cosmos. Although the younger Nicholas has followed the likes of Namath has followed the likes of Namath on and off the playing fields, he has also seen the stars in less glamorous positions on his father's operating table and as statistics in the orthopedist's injury research. Quite naturally Nicholas became interested in his father's research on pro squads to prevent ailments and prolong carcers...
Given Wiesenthal's experience-he and his wife are the only survivors of families that numbered 89 before the Holocaust-his still raw emotions are understandable. "Believe me," he warns, "it could happen again." It is all too easy for him to recollect Hitler's view of the Final Solution: "This is a chapter of our history that has never been written and never is to be written." Genocide is an expensive attempt to give the lie to the Fuhrer, to write and rewrite that chapter, recalling everything and forgiving nothing. But in this film, memory and ambition...