Word: olympian
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Steel understands and displays Lippmann's virtues as a journalist: an elegant and supple prose style and a mind that quickly perceived the fundamental components of any issue or crisis. His celebrated Olympian detachment served him and his readers well; amid the hubbub and uproar of daily events, Lippmann could be counted on for the long view, for the dispassionate analysis that could somehow drown out all the noise around him. In Public Opinion (1922), his best book, he anticipated a problem that has grown worse through the years: How can democracy survive in a mass society, when...
...Olympian View...
...author, a sportsman and TIME'S tourist-about-Moscow gives his own Olympian view of the XXII Games and offers his reflections on life and language, soldiery and circus acts in the Soviet capital...
...Soviets will undoubtedly point to the 35 world records set, the numerous medals they piled up, and the several confrontations which gripped even dispassionate observers--like the duel between Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett. Then again, events such as equestrian did not even resemble competitions of Olympian stature...
...race to nowhere. For American athletes, the road to Moscow was closed when Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan. Still the Trials went on last week in Eugene, Ore., a pleasant college town that calls itself the track and field capital of the nation. At stake was the somewhat empty designation "Olympian," a set of bright new red, white and blue U.S.A. uniforms for the top three finishers in each event, and an invitation to the White House July 30. Though the U.S. Olympic Committee went to pains to emphasize the importance of the Trials and call attention to a number...