We Are What We Pretend to Be (2012)
“Aaron Edelman, termed him “an ardent Schweitzerite, a fully committed reverence-for-lifer.” Edelman said, “It could be said of Gilbert as literally as it could have been said of his hero, Dr. Albert Schweitzer: ‘He wouldn’t hurt a fly.’ I remember one time in the lab a cockroach ran across the floor, and a student named Cynthia Gottlieb stepped on it. And Gilbert said to her in that rich voice of his, ‘Cynthia, I can’t tell you how much I wish you hadn’t done that.’”
A possible “extenuating... circumstance,” according to the Globe: “His father, the prominent Boston orthodontist Dr. Robert Berman, also runner-up two years in a row in the Wianno Pro-Am Tournament on Cape Cod, 1968 and 1969, committed suicide four years ago.”
The denouement? Wanda Lightfoot through her lawyers asked for and received in absentia an uncontested divorce, a flat $1 million settlement, no alimony, no child support, and an order of protection against her ex-husband.MoreLess
A possible “extenuating... circumstance,” according to the Globe: “His father, the prominent Boston orthodontist Dr. Robert Berman, also runner-up two years in a row in the Wianno Pro-Am Tournament on Cape Cod, 1968 and 1969, committed suicide four years ago.”
The denouement? Wanda Lightfoot through her lawyers asked for and received in absentia an uncontested divorce, a flat $1 million settlement, no alimony, no child support, and an order of protection against her ex-husband.MoreLess
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