Word: olympian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Otherwise, the story was all Yale. Olympian John Nelson, who swims better than Brian Dowling plays football, set two pool records by earning victories in the freestyles at 500 and 1000 yards...
Going into today's match Harvard's lineup has been re-arranged slightly. Nayar and Terrell remain at 1 and 2 respectively, but the return of Olympian oarsman Fritz Hobbs moves Michel Scheinmann down to four. In addition, Fernando Gonzalez has moved ahead of John Ince to the number 5 position and Ed Atwood has jumped ahead of Peter Abrams to the number seven spot. Saeve Whitman and Jaime Gonzales remain at nine and ten respectively...
...Walter Cronkite is the father image of broadcast journalism and David Brinkley the cool analyst, Harry Reasoner of CBS is television's friendly next-door neighbor. Other commentators are effervescent or stern, puckish or olympian, earnest or remote. Reasoner comes across as warm, witty and involved not only with the news but with his audience as well. Everything about his face - the grey-white shock of hair, shaggy temples, rugged chin, deep smile lines flanking a spreading nose - seems square, safe and reassuring in a 'chaotic world. His manner brings viewers a message that middle-class values...
Another bit of Barth cunning is to turn daily life into mythology while turning mythology into domestic comedy. Ambrose His Mark, Water-Message and the title story, Lost in the Funhouse, contain elements of autobiography, though the characters and events have an Olympian quality. Menelaiad and Anonymiad, bawdy colloquializations of the Aeneid, are reminiscent of Barth's historical burlesque The Sot-Weed Factor...
...Karen Muir, 15, who has the Olympian misfortune to reside in Kimberley, South Africa. "I don't know much about politics," she said quietly, "but I am disappointed the Olympic committee allowed politics to enter sports." Then she showed the world what it will miss in October by breaking the listed world records in the 100-meter backstroke (1 min. 6.9 sec.) and 200-meter backstroke...