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...philosophical overtone of the material was more than a coincidence since Hoberman's other courses include one which studies the philosophy of Kierkegaard, an author Hoberman quotes almost as often as English 160a's Robert Chapman mutters "George Bernard Shaw...
...appalled by Washington's rather shabby treatment of his 300 slaves and, like the far more perceptive Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville a generation later, predicted that slavery would "sooner or later be fatal to the southern states." The young duke also recorded the sentiments of a certain Captain Chapman in Kentucky: "Our Government could be no worse than it is now." The plaint sounds remarkably up to date...
Steven A. Ballmer, Paul L. Bixby, Stephen J. Chapman, Francis J. Connolly, Jefferson Flanders, Robert B. James, Jr., Sharon E. Jones, Grover G. Norquist, William L. Pollak, Mark D. Stegall
...lawless epoch, a broken mirror-image of the country at large? The conclusions are not as obvious as they seem. Professional sport is in fact no more violent than it used to be. The beanball has been with us since baseball began. Back in 1920, Cleveland Indian Ray Chapman was killed by Yankee Carl Mays' fastball. Twenty years ago Giant Pitcher Sal Maglie was given the sobriquet "the Barber" because of the close shaves his fastball gave the faces of hitters. Don Drysdale, a Dodger star of the '60s, was famed as a fastballing headhunter. Basketball, theoretically...
Chester's rationale cannot be dismissed as mere puck passing. Only 22,000 saw the Chapman tragedy; today a man kicking dirt on the shoes of an umpire is seen by millions of viewers. University of California Sociologist Harry Edwards, a former college track star, finds that "the violence in sport is magnified by television. The fan can identify with violence in terms of what he would like to do with the forces he cannot control." And in a recent paper in the medical journal Pediatrics, three physicians reported an "Evel Knievel syndrome" -imitation of exhibitionism in sport. "Televised...