Word: amateurness
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...Russian Jewish aristocrat who refuses to accept the changes that Lenin's Soviet revolution have brought. Forced to live in near squalor on a railway carriage while assigned as a roving inspector, he stubbornly devotes all his energies to developing a talking motion picture. Although he is an untrained amateur, there are glints of genius in him. The play deftly balances his private quest against vast social change, and culminates in an agonizing exile from a homeland that has already ceased to exist. Alan Howard plays the inventor, Gemma Jones (PBS's Duchess of Duke Street) his wife, and Jenny...
Despite the remoteness of the disaster area, about 130 miles northeast of Milan, more than 4,000 amateur and professional rescue workers had rushed to the scene by late afternoon. Soldiers, firemen and policemen were joined by Alpine rescue squads with sniffer dogs trained to search out avalanche victims. Although rescue efforts continued through Friday night and Saturday, only eight people were found alive, and most of the work involved recovering bodies...
Farkes, disappointed with falling to the 39th round of the draft, went to prove himself against the best amateur competition in the country, the Cape Cod Baseball League...
Playing on the Cape means baseball is your job, a 12-week whirlwind tour of the minor leagues, or at least the closest simulation in amateur baseball. Every morning you go to the field at 9 a.m. to lift. You return at 4 p.m. for stretching, hitting and fielding before a 7 p.m. game. That’s five hours a day before the game even starts, and a far cry from the life of a Harvard student-athlete...
...America Radio has achieved something significant: survival. As poignantly revealed in the HBO documentary Left of the Dial, the network had to endure media scorn, its own amateur flounderings and, nearly, financial ruin. Yet it is still on the air - not in three big cities (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago) and three smaller ones, as it was when it went on the air, and not on the severely reduced network it became two weeks later (after bounced checks led to L.A. and Chicago dropping out), but on 52 stations, including 15 of the top 20 markets (L.A. is back, Chicago...