Word: amateurness
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DIED. M.M. KAYE, 95, author whose 1978 historical novel, The Far Pavilions, was sometimes likened to Gone With the Wind; in Lavenham, England. Born Mary Margaret Kaye to British parents in preindependence India, she dabbled in amateur theater, but her passion was writing. Her richly detailed tale of a British orphan who is raised as a Hindu and falls in love with an Indian princess became an international best seller and a high-profile hbo miniseries...
DIED. FANNY BLANKERS-KOEN, 85, Dutch homemaker who won four gold medals in track and field at the 1948 Olympics, the most ever in one Olympics by a woman. For the London Games, she trained--in the less intense manner of amateur athletes of the era--two hours a day, twice a week, with her two young children in tow. At 30, she was the oldest woman on the track--and the fastest...
...Anne Tyler is. The author of The Accidental Tourist is a quiet observer of the existential quagmire, the writer who returns again and again to the predicament of people who are trying not to rock the boat or, if they do, to set it back up quickly. The Amateur Marriage (Knopf; 306 pages) is another of those stories, though the wider world intrudes more prominently in this one than in most other Tyler novels, largely in the effect that war and social upheaval have on the life of an uneasily married couple...
None, however, deny that the road to a national championship will most likely run through Jantzen, who is currently the top-ranked wrestler by W.I.N. Magazine, Amateur Wrestling News and the Wrestling Mall...
...Those wishing to savor the visual delights of Hefner?s world should thumb through ?Playboy 50 Years: the Photographs,? with text by Joe Peterson.There the amateur sociologist will be able to gauge seismic shifts in both sexual tolerance and body fashion...