Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush won the debate largely because he triumphed in the congeniality competition. But has the pursuit of the presidency become trivialized by this intense emphasis on likability? After all, TV game-show hosts are uniformly genial, but few Americans want Pat Sajak presiding over the National Security Council...
...crash and in grain during last summer's drought. His two public commodities funds lost an estimated $50 million in the past year, or nearly 50% of their value. Dennis decided last month to pack up his diminished fortune, estimated at $200 million, and move on to another pursuit: politics. He aims to invest in causes and candidates that reflect a philosophy he describes as "an idiosyncratic mix of economic free markets and liberal social policies...
Sometimes the Bentsen campaign seems to be a languid odyssey in futile pursuit of network airtime. By design, the Dukakis headquarters has kept him from committing any news, though he has stepped up his attacks on Quayle. "If the Republicans were elected," said Bentsen last week, "I would pray for the good health of George Bush every night." Bentsen's advisers trust that he will show similar vigor in this week's debate...
...gold medal even though his rear tire began to deflate during his final lap. In the 100-km time trial, an East German team that had trouble breaking two hours in training clocked 1:57.47 to take the gold. In the qualification round of the 4,000-meter pursuit, Australia set a new world record of 4 min. 16.32 sec., only to see the Soviets break it again...
Reporters have not as a rule approached other sports executives in pursuit of profundities. Former Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, for example, was seldom sounded for his views on Western civilization. What sets Giamatti apart from everyone else who has held a comparable position of authority in U.S. sports is his background. He once made his living as a professor of English and comparative literature, with a particular interest in the Italian Renaissance. Odder still, he was at age 40 the youngest person in 200 years to be installed as the president of Yale University, in 1978. (Around the time...