Word: greets
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Maybe it isn't surprising that the first big menopause books to greet the baby boomers are so morbid and alarmist. A book titled Menopause: No Big Deal might better describe the experience of a generation of busy, high-achieving women. But it probably wouldn't leap off the shelves...
...ICEMAN AS A SORT OF prehistoric Daniel Boone: a leather-clad outdoorsman, equipped with the Stone Age equivalent of a bowie knife and plenty of mountain know-how. Now imagine the reception the roughhewn pioneer might have got if he had shown up, coonskin cap and all, to greet the erudite Thomas Jefferson at Philadelphia's Second Continental Congress -- or if he had strode into the elegant court of Louis XV to mingle with the bewigged nobles of France...
This picture alone can underscore the idea of the misunderstanding of Columbus' arrival in the Americas. When Columbus arrived on Hispano in 1492 there were people there to greet him. How could he discover a land that was already inhabited? This is a perfect example of the African proverb, until the lions has historians, the story of the hunt will always glorify the hunter...
...rope line, waving, shaking, touching, posing, always smiling, his blue dress shirt damp with perspiration, the Secret Service agents clinging to his belt when he leaned far into the crowd. The faces of Manchester conveyed the Music Man message that "there's nothing halfway about the Iowa way to greet you." The mood was warm and enveloping as Clinton heard each message of encouragement. "We owe it all to you." "You're doing great." "You'll be a great President...
That may be one of the reasons why the Olympics appeal more than ever this year to Magic, who is now an underdog for the first time, a newcomer to the event, with the odds (personally) against him. For perhaps the first time in memory, we will not greet another no-look pass with a shrug of familiarity: Magic is an amateur again. Why should he, suddenly mortal, risk his health to play in the Olympics? Why should we race off to watch him play in Barcelona? Because the root of the word amateur -- still the heart of the Games...