Word: sport
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Unquestionably, the character of skiing has changed in recent years and will continue to change as the number of participants increases. The basic appeal of skiing, however, seems to be immutable, and should provide for the steady growth of the sport in the forseeable future...
There must be a nagging fear, however, in the minds of skiing's entrepreneurs, that the boom may contain the seeds of its own destruction, for so much of the appeal of the sport in the past was esoteric. A skiing holiday was a kind of retreat and the jargon and attire proved to be gamesmanly ploys back home. But now that every street urchin has a quilted parks, this sort of appeal has been irrevocably lost. The question is: how much of skiing's popularity has been due to the sport itself and how much to the ancillary institutions...
Even if skiers are no longer able to spend conspicuously, they will probably still continue to spend, because nothing has yet diminished the wild beauty of a ski run, the challenge of modern technique, or the elan of apres ski--three of the most rewarding aspects of the sport. The parallel christie is at once more attractive, more fun, and less dangerous than the stem turn; it facilitates controlled skiing on steep slopes as well as quick linked turns on narrow trails...
Where, the unfamiliar one might ask, should one go when confronted by New England's great variety of both natural and man-made resources for winter sport...
Driving through the gentle rolling mountains of Vermont, many skiers dream of one day owning their own share of the sport that has so swiftly captured the imagination of the American Public. Most of the time-but not always-this thought remains but a dream...