Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Praising the role of TV in sport, you ignore what televised golf has done to play on the average course...
...Your Essay on "The Golden Age of Sport" [June 2] is an excellent analysis of sport in the 1960s. The magic eye of the TV camera has had its impact in no uncertain fashion, and I hope it will be there to foot the bill and thrill the world for many years to come...
...Your Essay is a lot of baloney. Today's sport stars have not, as you claim, eclipsed the great stars of the 1920s. For example, Jim Thorpe could outkick any kicker today. No batter today in the big leagues can even make a good sacrifice bunt. Very few pitchers today can go nine innings, and no pitcher today makes a patch on Dizzy Dean's or Satchel Paige's pants...
...that presides without fail at every Harvard commencement starts up each year another round of a sedentary yet elevating outdoor sport," he said. "The name of the game is the decoding of the titles of theses...
Polyglot Population. The Israelis achieved social miracles as well?if on a more modest scale. The waves of postwar immigrants threw together Jews of all possible backgrounds and appearances, from the brown-skinned illiterate Yemeni to the bearded Orthodox Jews of East Europe's ghettos to the sport-shirted sophisticates of the West. Gathered from 100 different countries of the Diaspora, they spoke 100 languages and worshiped their God according to the divergent traditions of myriad Jewish sects. Though many modern Jews pay only lip service to their religion, Orthodox Jews dominated Israeli society and lawmaking from the first...