Morrie Vocabulary #1
I wish I'd had a group like yours where I would have been able to talk about my sorrows.
What is distress or disappointment?
Morrie's first job out of graduate school was at one of these places.
What is a mental hospital?
Morrie wants these words written on his tombstone.
What is "a teacher to the last?"
Mitch's wife's name is this.
What is Janine?
I felt intrusive, as reporters often do, and I began to think that a tape machine between two people who were supposedly friends was a foreign object.
What is unwelcome or uninvited?
I was covering Wimbledon, the world's premier tennis competition.
What is first in importance?
When the faculty at Brandeis realized that giving male students failing grades could make them eligible to enter the Vietnam War, they did what?
What is give them all A's?
What is a heart attack following a robbery?
What is sing?
I wondered what regrets he had once he knew his death was imminent.
What is about to happen?
I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply.
What is sadness or mourning?
Charlotte, Morrie's wife, says Mitch's weekly visits give Morrie a sense of _________.
What is purpose?
These were what Morrie said were the essential parts of him.
What are his hands and his voice?
Mitch gives Morrie this the day of his graduation from Brandeis University.
What is a briefcase?
She saw education as the only antidote to their poverty.
What is a cure or remedy?
Morrie's sweatpants were loose because his legs had atrophied beyond normal clothing size.
What is wasted away?
Morrie's explanation for those who say, "Oh, if I were young again" is what?
What is they lead an unsatisfied life?
Billionaire Ted Turner never wanted his tombstone to read this.
What is I never owned a network?
Mitch wrote his college thesis on this topic.
What is football as religion in America?
He would sit, when he was up to it, and dictate the responses to friends and family who gathered for their letter-writing sessions.
What is recite?
"...and I just started to cry. I feel their anguish as if it were my own."
What is severe mental or physical pain?
Morrie's classes were light on ___________ and heavy on _________________.
What are career skills and personal development?
What is "how you stay alive.?"
Mitch's father wanted him to choose this as a career.
What is a lawyer?
I'm an independent person, so my inclination was to fight all of this _ being helped from the car, having someone else dress me.
What is a natural tendency?