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...Rationale, Legman is concerned with a transcendent purity every bit as excessive and unattainable as the perfect body cleanliness of the deodorant-happy culture he abhors. His views on the psychological roots of dirty jokes, while delivered with ingenuity, verve and color (Legman will always call a spade a goddam shovel), belong to the Freudian orthodoxy as laid down by the master in Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious...
...Friends of Harvard Rowing are holding their annual luncheon for oarsmen on Saturday afternoon," said one lightweight, "and we won't be able to eat a goddam thing. It kills...
...were a sexist pig, I could say that "The New Breed of Athlete" is a dumb book written by a dumb broad who doesn't know a goddam thing about sports. And unfortunately this is the kind of book that is assaulting our senses these days...
...grandfather, onetime South Carolina Governor and U.S. Senator James Henry ("Cotton Is King") Hammond. Billings dropped out of Harvard to drive an ammunition truck for the French army in World War I, then became a reporter for the Bridgeport, Conn., Telegram. He was fired, he recalled, for "writing too goddam much purple prose," and went to the old Brooklyn Eagle as Washington correspondent. Luce hired him in 1928 as TIME'S capital stringer to succeed a New York Herald Tribune reporter, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. A year later, Billings became national affairs editor and in 1933 managing editor...
...franchise switch, Finley will probably stay in baseball just to see the game five years from now?orange balls streaking through the air, batters getting on base after three balls, pitchers nervously eyeing the clock. "Action!" shouts Finley. "Action?that's what the game needs! Let's get some goddam action in this sport...