"It was the first time in my life that I recall, certainly the first significant time," he said, "when people I respected, like Julian Bond, but also just generally the civil rights community, was on the other side from me".
That is the memory I call up for the relatively young Papa, certainly as young as I recall him, the intense and ambitious professor near the start of his professional career, the father of young children, the academic adventurer off in a small Indian village.
Certainly, not unique, but if I recall correctly, the commentators Jim Nantz and Ken Venturi sought comparisons to winning comparable (i.e., Grand Slam) professional championships in the same calendar year.
They have approached me several times where something odd has happened or where they had concerns (one Google search my daughter did for Barbie and Ken certainly produced some interesting results I recall).
She did some diet that required the consumption of a half-grapefruit at a half-dozen intervals during the day — it didn't work, as I recall, but it certainly kept her safe from scurvy.
(I recall that I certainly did, watching casually from the sidelines in 2003 and 2004).
Certainly I don't recall Homer taking up the subject.
Certainly I don't recall broadband being an election (or even divisive) issue before, which just shows how things have changed since 2005, when fewer than half of UK homes had broadband.
As an example, I certainly recall when the phone bill was $100 a month and up (I've worked in an office where mine alone was $4,000 a month, now entirely replaced by $20 a month on Skype).
But I certainly recall his peering at me with a sort of thin-lipped, supercilious scrutiny, as though he were trying to decide what made me tick.
