Word: excellence
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue here is that Americans and Canadians always seem to have an excuse when they lose at their national games. Neither people can stomach the fact that foreigners work harder or that a different system of encouraging athletes to excel could be more conducive to player development...
...marvel at gold and precious stones. But I am astonished to see workmanship excel the substance. For I have with wondering eyes beheld a thousand forms and similitudes, of which I am not able to write...
...interplay between inequality and equality. Inequality is the less talked about, but in fact the more fervently practiced. It is the great generator, inspiring the energy that spanned the American continent. It multiplies the wealth, sharpens the wits, creates the nervous dynamism that is called progress. The desire to excel is the adrenaline of competition. If winning does not matter, asked Adolph Rupp, former University of Kentucky basketball coach, why does anyone bother to keep score? Yes, but everyone knows the competitive excesses that inequality also encourages: the ruthless athlete who thinks that sportsmanship is for losers, the politician with...
...whether it was, say, a black minstrel with one leg or a white-bearded old man with a "seeing-eye tortoise" is pursued in tightly logical but ridiculous dialogue at which Robert Vaughn and Katherine McGrath, as a pair of entertainers just back from an exhibit of Magritte paintings, excel. It is, of course, a theatrical equivalent of Magritte's surrealism, a kind of trompe l'oe il of the stage, where the characters quibble with intense specificity about their own conflicting illusions...
...gross disservice to the students, who are fighting to succeed in a society which, they fear, is reluctant to recognize their efforts and their success. TIME'S reporter interviewed science teachers about reading but never interviewed the reading teachers, and you publish a picture of students who excel and imply by the caption that they read at the fifth-grade level...