Word: glorious
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Southern black blues fathered country and western music, which stayed in the hills unchanged for generations while the strains that travelled to the city became jazz. After the glorious period of Jimmie Rodgers, Lefty Frizzell, Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb--country music started to become big business. Nashville discovered the way to make its music a mass commodity in the mid-sixties--by adding background violins and Hollywood choruses to the dobros and the pedal steels...
...television has made the game so rich - in every sense of the word - that its players portray villains, heroes and fools all in the same afternoon. Through TV, the sport has become a high ritual of bloodletting. It is also, as always, a morganatic wedding of cold mathematics and glorious physical achievement. It is, as well, a confused and pointless scramble across 100 yards of meaningless turf...
...generation's box score, a monument of talent, accomplishment and appetite. George Herman Ruth−the glorious Babe of baseball−was and is the nation's finest sports legend. No one will ever replace him as the Sultan of Swat. Without Ruth, Hank Aaron and future sluggers would have no standard of greatness to be measured against...
...sees naked greed in an organized seal slaughter, intolerable boredom in a job at an automated fish-processing plant, and true lunacy in the fact that white oil explorers live by their clocks. The whites "are so crazy," he concludes that "they believe they alone make sense." In a glorious scene, he fashions a knife out of his own freezing excrement. When it is rock hard, he kills two huskies with it and builds a sled of pelts and bones. Then he triumphantly carries his family off to a free life in a place remote from whites. Readers will rejoice...
Chamber music, as it begins to shed its bad name, is very much alive and well now. It is living in Cambridge, every Monday night through August 6 at Sanders Theatre--living a glorious renaissance at the hands of the Harvard Summer School Chamber Ensemble...