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...Americans, cricket may look like a quaint memento of the British empire's heyday, an exasperatingly slow, overly complex game of bat and ball played by gentlemen in white flannels who continue to maintain the time-honored tradition of interrupting the afternoon session for 20 minutes at 4 p.m., to allow the players to enjoy a nice cup of tea. And yet to the British and those they colonized, it remains an almost mystical canonization of their culture?s finest achievements...
high-quality even two decades after their heyday...
...Dexter or Mark Waugh?but as his late teammate Jack Fingleton wrote: "He was such a genius that he could well have indulged himself in the artistic flourishes of batting, but he was too much of a realist to permit himself to do this. Every spectator in Bradman's heyday sensed that he was using not a bat so much as an axe dripping with the bowler's blood and agony...
Back in the heyday of the Cold War, American intelligence officers used to scour May Day pictures in Pravda to gain clues about Russia's leaders and the general state of our arch-enemy. By analyzing these pictures, they learned who was in control, how healthy they were, how good the Russian economy was, and other useful tidbits. Watching President George W. Bush's speech last Wednesday, anybody could have learned the same things about our country, even without moles in the FBI. They would have seen that our country is in good shape, though we possess some...
...placed by Kilty to create an alternative to the "exessively clubby" Harvard dramatic societies, resulted in the Brattle Theater Company which propelled Brattle Hall into its dramatical heyday...