Word: stadiumseating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Our own Michael Sandel writes, in this week's issue of The New Republic, "Sports stadiums are the cathedrals of our civil religion, public spaces that gather people from different walks of life in rituals of loss and hope, profanity and prayer." Remembering the last no-hitter at the 161st...
Fenway's first and probably strongest line of defense against this proposal is, of course, nostalgia and sentimentalism. Fenway Park is the mecca of baseball, one of the sport's most sacred shrines. As the misty-eyed Bob Costases of the world constantly remind us, Fenway and its charming idiosyncracies...
For California to outlaw smoking in bars is ludicrous [AMERICAN SCENE, Jan. 12]. It is one thing to ban smoking in restaurants, public buildings, malls, stadiums, hospitals, but in bars? Cigarettes and alcohol go hand in hand. The tavern, pub and bar have been smoke-filled environments for centuries. C...
Consider: in just a couple of decades, sports have metastasized from one of life's small, innocent pleasures into a kind of cultural kudzu, filling our cable channels with games and game "analysis," our urban centers with stadiums and our brains with forgettable factoids about Terrell Davis' shoulder and Brett...
The Promise Keepers, all men, another cult of sorts, came together in stadiums all over the country to make mass statements of contrition for past sins and to beg forgiveness for wife abuse, child abandonment, infidelity and, apparently equal to the rest, insensitivity. In one whopping convention in Washington on...