Word: littlest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debunking of the athlete-as-hero is hardly new. Such disaffected jocks as Dave Meggyesy and Jim Bouton have uncovered more clay feet than there are statues. The facile comparison of football and the Viet Nam War was one of the shibboleths of the '60s. Even the littlest leaguers know that professional sport is hard, fast and punishing. But now there is something more than imagery at stake: a danger that the whole perception of games is being altered...
...recalled, was a good deal troubled by matters of conscience, and it took him most of the book to wrestle down the acquired prejudices of Southern boyhood. Hardly a doubt stirs this Huck, of course. He is a real nice boy from the very start -maybe just the littlest bit mischievous -and besides, everyone here keeps him busy singing...
...observed that being an American was a complex fate. Surely in contemporary society, being an American child is even more complex, more challenging and bewildering. Yet at Christmas, 1973, America could do far worse than listen to the notions, the insights, the needs -and even the fantasies-of its littlest and most traditional citizens. At Christmas 1973 it is well to remember that Ebenezer Scrooge himself was rescued by a dream and restored by a child...
There was also scrub baseball, in which the littlest kid was allowed to play "pigtail," meaning that he stood behind the catcher and retrieved all the passed balls. There were boat races on nearby Crystal Lake, where the air was afume with adult cigar smoke ("One of the great disappointments of my life has been the fact that no cigar ever tasted as good as that cigar smoke used to smell there by Crystal Lake"). Of course there was a high school play. In a performance of Peg o' My Heart, Bruce was called upon by the script...
...cheap way for tolerant upper-middle-class liberals to escape their own prejudices while the bigots get their views reinforced." Lear concedes that the humorous treatment of bigotry means "we don't have to think about it now." But he maintains that "we're swallowing just the littlest bit of truth about ourselves, and it sits there for the unconscious to toss about later...