Word: prize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over in Addison. This mountain man was born in Queens and frequented an Orthodox synagogue in the wilds of Great Neck, N.Y. And what about the Beth Jacob Synagogue in Montpelier, where Orthodox, Conservative and Reform all worship together under the same roof? There's a Nobel Peace Prize in there somewhere. "Unfortunately, this is newsworthy in the Jewish world," concedes R.D. Eno, publisher of a bimonthly called KFARI, which means "my town" in Hebrew, and subtitled The Jewish Newsmagazine of Rural New England and Quebec...
...promise. Fresh from a Colorado upbringing, she married Poet Robert Lowell and at 29 published the best seller Boston Adventure. Other marriages and other books followed, and so did poor health and a passel of troubles, many self-inflicted. By the time her Collected Stories won the Pulitzer Prize in 1970, she had long since fallen silent as a fiction writer and would remain so right up to her death, at 63, in 1979. David Roberts' workmanlike biography generously quotes Stafford's inimitable prose voice -- elegant, tough, mordantly funny. It is a voice that is sadly neglected in today...
...size of a human fist. He must practice continuously to keep up his skill, sometimes four days a week for an hour or two each session. His prowess has won him trips to a competition in France, where he placed sixth, and to China, where he won a second prize. For Hyde, model-airplane competition is an athletic pursuit every bit as exacting as, say, golf or riflery...
...everybody on the street, every day is a competition." One national trait troubles him: "People in the U.S. tend to value a sport or a sportsman exactly according to how much money is involved. In adjacent arenas, if Carl Lewis and Ben Johnson were running for a $1,000 prize, and six monkeys were racing for $10 million, which place do you think would be filled? Honestly, if Jesse Owens and Jim Thorpe were around today, I wonder if as many people would have heard of them...
Neither of them talks about the prize or seems to care about the benefits. "The medals don't mean anything," says Thompson, "and the glory doesn't last. It's all about performing well, and feeling deeply about it." Joyner- Kersee says, "The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport, loving sport, period." Zaharias and Thorpe are around today, honestly, and everyone has heard of them...