Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HIGH School, I was picked absolutely last when it came time to choose sides for anything from softball to field hockey. Wise captains hid me in the backfield where I couldn't do very much damage. So, I came to college without a thought of pursuing a sport. Journalism became my principal extracurricular pursuit, and the walk from Dunster to 14 Plympton Street constituted my only real form of exercise...
Celebrity sporting events are like happy families in a Russian novel: they're all alike. Only the celebrities and the sports change. A number of celebrities, most of whom have nothing in common except that they are celebrities, get together to compete in a sport in which they have no expertise for a number of rewards, the most important of which is money to be donated to their favorite charities...
...varsity boat will sport a few new faces. Junior Andy Hoyt moves over from the JV to stroke the first varsity race of his career, and last week's stroke, Jim Himes, moves back to the five-seat...
...Sport of Nature will surely provoke controversy. Its denunciations of South African politics are ferocious, its portraits of whites often scathing. The argument implied throughout the book can be caricatured: all South Africa needs is love. But Gordimer is saying much more than that. Her novel is both richly detailed and visionary, a brilliant reflection of a world that exists and an affirmation of faith in one that could be born...
...drama of South Africa is ferociously played out in A Sport of Nature. -- Connoisseurship and greed meet in Artful Partners...