Word: davidson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DAVIDSON COLLEGE...
That big one with the moustache is Ben Davidson, former defensive end with the Oakland Raiders and bit-part actor (clothed, in the porn classic Behind the Green Door). The little one he's holding is Jim Bouton, the ex-New York Yankee pitcher who threw curves at the baseball establishment with Ball Four, his 1970 book about drinking, dallying and other big-league peccadilloes. The two are preparing a fall TV series (titled Ball Four) in which Bouton portrays a so-so relief pitcher and Davidson plays a catcher named Rhino...
...word "lousy" gets a big laugh from the audience of twenty-five years ago because Americans then weren't used to being able to call something lousy publicly. Maybe we're still not at ease with it, though. If we were, wouldn't we have called John Davidson lousy and gotten rid of him? Where the hell did we get John Davidson? Who asked for him? And where is the genius Sid Caesar now? He once made us all go into frenzied tribal dances of laughter in front of our television screens. People hurt themselves, they laughed so hard. Bring...
...second team, consisting of J.V. and freshmen players, mimicked the varsity performance. It triumphed over Virginia Polytech Institute and the University of North Carolina J.V.'s, faulted in close matches at Furman and the Country Club of Virginia, and split a two-day contest with Davidson...
...emerges from all the cant and posturing is a very different picture of Albert Speer from what he would like: a cold-blooded, amoral man, lacking the most basic concepts of right and wrong, who even now cannot grasp the horror he did so much to perpetrate. Historian Eugene Davidson was wrong when he wrote of Speer, "whatever he lost when he made his pact with Adolf Hitler, it was not his soul." Albert Speer did lose his soul. Worse yet, he never missed...