Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thank God for John, who, centuries ago, caught a vision of the new Jerusalem. God grant that those of us who still walk the road of life will catch this vision and decide to move forward to that city of complete life in which the length and the breadth, and the height are equal...
...replacing Philip Sharp, a friendly, down-to-earth guy who always puts the IOP's dinner guests at ease. Sharp, a Democrat who has served in the House of Representatives, will continue to teach at the Kennedy School in addition to assuming increased duties at an environmental agency. We thank him for his service and wish him well...
...Finally he said,'Is it to do good to humanity? Is that why you want to be a doctor?' I hesitated in answering this, and he said, 'Because they make the worst doctors.' I got out and said to myself, 'Thank you, you sonofabitch.'Then I said, 'OK, I'll be a mathematician, because that's what I like...
...hesitate for a second in pouncing on the story. The president's opponent, in fact, takes it upon himself to broadcast a new commercial urging the masses not to vote for a "man who's lost his integrity"--the message is hilariously set against the background of the song, "Thank Heaven for Little Girls." Amidst all the frenzy, mysterious political consultant Conrad Brean (Robert De Niro) is called to resolve the catastrophe. Perfectly calm and entirely confident, Brean devises his master plan...
Pimpernel followed a similar course, with a concept album and a Top 40 single (You Are My Home) before reaching the stage. Wildhorn gets positively woozy about the way his music affects audiences: aids patients write to thank him for the inspiration they get from A New Life, a song from Jekyll & Hyde. And as for those critics? Friends send him copies of early bad reviews of Puccini and Verdi operas to make him feel better. "There's a tendency to get bitter and cynical, but I'm not going to do that," he says. "I've got too much...