Word: replays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those who still care for polished English prose these 20 years of chronologically arranged essays can be read or reread as one would replay old records. There are such golden oldies as 'The Holy Family" (the Kennedys), "Nasser's Egypt," "E. Nesbit's Magic," "Tarzan" and "Writing Plays for Television," which offers a self-assessment yet to be equaled by Vidal's critics: "I am at heart a propagandist, a tremendous hater, a tiresome nag, complacently positive that there is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise...
...much as their American counterparts. "The state cannot give anything to anyone," Gierek declared. "It can only distribute the goods created by work." If he can persuade the Poles to accept responsibility for their future rather than expect unrealistic results from the state, he may yet avoid a replay of the events of two years ago that brought his country to the edge of chaos...
...tonight's game should be a very close and exciting one. It certainly won't be a replay of Harvard's tournament victory over a predominantly J.V. Brown squad. "I predict victory," Graff--said reluctantly, "but not without a lot of work...
...expertise in hitting to right field and capacity for handling the double-play were certain to be assets for the new defense-minded Bosox. And a magnificant asset he was, the key to the starcrossed pennant drive which took millions of hard-core Sox fans down to the replay of the Polk Country series, only this time for all the marbles. He had survived not only the broken leg, but a broken finger and an 0 for 47 batting slump last year, and as he took the field in Tiger Stadium on Monday night, the opportunity was there...
...swings. They initially garnered a silver medal, won by a lithe, pretty medical student named Karin Janz in the women's all-round individual competition. She subsequently won a pair of golds in the individual long-horse and uneven-bar competitions. The men's gymnastics events were a replay of the traditional Japanese-Russian conflict. Exquisitely musculatured for the sport, the Japanese men performed breathtaking airborne arabesques that showed considerably more imagination and verve than the strong but methodical Russians. Although the Japanese flew off with all three medals in the all-round individual, two Soviet athletes picked up gold...