1 | Seeing a distinguished person sitting on the sidewalk is something our of the ordinary. | |
2 | Here I am in a pulpit, dressed like a Puritan minister - an apparition that would have horrified many of my distinguished forebears and perhaps rededicated some of them to the extirpation of witches. | |
3 | He never prostituted his great acting talent by appearing in television advertisement. | |
4 | He was not an especially distinguished pontiff and he didn't reign for very long, yet he is of perennial interest to both academic and popular historians. | |
5 | So my main purpose here today is to once again thank them for their outstanding work, but more importantly to solicit their ideas in terms of how we move forward. |