Word: amateurness
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...that is why reporters hate to ask such questions. But in the world of amateur athletics, after all, this is true drama. This is how emotions are conveyed, how the athletes and non-athletes bridge the gap. What it required, though, was pain: a reopening of a predestined wound...
Telling the story of amateur athletes largely differs from the recounting of historical moments. Corbett’s rule of thumb is to treat players with respect, and to remember to “keep the student in front of the athlete...
...Fulbright scholarship, a Harvard undergraduate degree and a Harvard Ph.D., three decades of teaching at leading research universities and more awards and honors than you or I or Tom Hanks could imagine—this isn’t an amateur...
...most striking change is the influx of new creative voices and stylistic experiments. Children's theaters started in the 1930s as amateur community projects, mainly doing adaptations of fairy tales and classic kids' stories. More professional children's theaters started sprouting in the 1960s and '70s in cities such as Minneapolis and Seattle, and children's playwrights began to tackle more serious social issues, from adjusting to a stepmother (Suzan Zeder's Step on a Crack) to the Holocaust (James Still's And Then They Came for Me). A landmark play like The Yellow Boat--which David Saar, who runs...
...plot to steal another rare diamond and declares that he will catch them in the act. That Agent Lloyd actually believes that this is a reasonable way to nab the bad guys and worse yet, that our brilliant criminals agree with him, is a matter of debate for amateur criminologists...