Word: sported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mailer looks the heavy but more characteristically acts the role of the nation's thumb-wrestling champ. He used to hold the world title too, he says, but he was whipped one night by a Mexican bullfighter who had learned the sport that day. "I wonder," Mailer muses, looking off into the distance, "if he realized what he won." Because thumb-wrestling is not just a diversion for Mailer--he gives himself to it as totally as he does to his writing, his family, and his friends. "Norman is great at thumb-wrestling," says an old friend, "because...
...SPORT AND A PASTIME, by James Salter. While his characters fall in love, the author has a love affair of his own with rural France. A fine and beautifully written novel...
Editorial Economy. In the preface to his chronology of practically everything, Williams explains that he accumulated a stack of index slips that ran to 30 feet. Nobody can argue with his facts. What does seem regrettable is that he sometimes slights American achievements. Consider "Sport" in 1938: "Len Hutton scores 364 runs against Australia at the Oval Test Match (Aug.)." It would have only been cricket to add a separate-but-equal note reading: "Gabby Hartnett hits home run in the last of the ninth to give Chicago Cubs chance to win National League pennant (Sept...
...reaction to the "summies" is not difficult to understand. Certainly not all the girls are dumb--Wellesley sends probably the largest contingent other than Radcliffe--and not all of them tease their hair, wear too much makeup, speak in raucous Brooklyn accents, or sport tight Harvard sweat-shirts. But you notice those. "You don't realize how attached you are to this place," a Harvard junior explained, "until you see it being raped." A Cliffie commented, "During the winter you share Cambridge with 5000 of your own kind, so you don't feel terribly close...
...decision was not even close-two judges scored it 10-5 for Benvenuti, the third had it 9-6-and the grubby sport of boxing had a hopeful new star. Temporarily, anyway. "Even Sandy Koufax got knocked out of the box sometimes," growled Griffith, vowing to win the title back "if I get another shot at him." He will get it on July...