Word: jock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what does the sports shelf have to gain besides a higher class of allusion from this new breed of Jock Lit? Well, length for one thing−notably in the case of James Michener. As readers of tomes like Hawaii and Centennial can testify, Michener is not one to take his obligations lightly, and the way he tells it. he owes a lot to sports. As a closet jock−and most Jock Lit starts with confession−Michener testifies that basketball rescued him from a career of crime as a tough kid in Doylestown, Pa. At 69, tennis...
...disguised autobiography known as the nostalgia-trivia game, including a play-byplay account of how Howard Ehmke almost (but not quite) pitched a no-hit game for the Red Sox on May 28, 1924. A fan as in fanatic, Michener further demonstrates the dread total recall of Jock Lit in reporting his meetings with everybody from Montreal Canadiens Goalie Ken Dryden to Fleurette Rigby, a four-year-old minicar racer...
...Jock Lit man of letters must also let his reader know he is not just a sportswriter. Sooner or later he will bring the smell of the library to the bleachers, as well as vice versa. To introduce a tone of scholarship−take that, Red Smith!−Michener compulsively piles up statistics on matters ranging from the death rate of ex-athletes (they live a couple of years less than the rest of us) to the win-loss records of Big Ten football teams and the average salaries in professional sports (as of 1974, basketball led with...
Jones stresses that this isn't a "dumb jock course" and is quite sensitive about the course's nickname. For five weeks, students are asked to keep logs detailing their daily activities. A paper based on the log enables the student to analyze his overall lifestyle in the Harvard society and determine factors that affect day-to-day decisions...
...Radcliffe jock has a long history, and with the Radcliffe sailing and crew teams she is far from dead. Sarah Herrick...