Word: prizefight
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...GREAT WHITE HOPE, by Howard Sackler, attempts to re-create the prizefight world of the 1900s, using the dramaturgy of the 1930s, and drawing dubious parallels with events of the 1960s. James Earl Jones exudes vitality as the first Negro heavyweight champion...
...serious sports fan would be well advised to follow a couple of simple rules. Never show up late for a prizefight. And never leave the Indianapolis 500 early...
...used her Beacon Street music room as a showcase for young performers, once staged a matinee prizefight for Back Bay's society ladies, who had naturally never been allowed by their husbands to see such a vulgar spectacle. "It was for a purse of $150," reminisced Referee Jack Sheean, "and I matched Knucksey Doherty of Donegal Square with Tim Harrington of Cambridge and told them to be themselves. I figured some of those sedate, quietly dressed society women would scream or faint, but the vestal virgins in the Coliseum never looked on with more calm than these high...
Then the drama begins, and it is constructed like a prizefight. In the early rounds the opponents politely feel each other out, and there is time for the referee to provide low comic relief ("Am I running this committee," Senator Mundt splutters ineffectually, "or am I not?"). In the middle rounds the opponents get down to serious slugging, and both take damaging blows-the evidence demonstrates that McCarthy attempted to blackmail the Army and that the Army then attempted to buy McCarthy off. But in the later rounds, McCarthy begins to swing wildly, and Joseph N. Welch, the Army...
...provide foreign-language experience in the elementary grades (French, Spanish, German). Bellevue also cut grade and age barriers to encourage able youngsters to push ahead for advanced work in languages, music, mathematics. Such a pushing program needed a keen staff and close community support. A brush-topped joiner and prizefight buff, Brain got both. "His ability to hire and keep good personnel has given Bellevue the pick of applicants," says Bellevue's school-board president...