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...would a growed up to be a press man when you was a little bitty boy," Killer said. There was an understandable amount of disappointment in his voice. Most of the reporters who cover pro golf are fat old schlock-slingers who never venture out of the press tent save for a beer or a trip to the bathroom; their contact with the players is usually limited to the mass interviews held after each round, with the players saying such fascinating things as "Well, I played pretty good. I could a done better, but I played pretty good...
...Weichers, a 6 ft. 2 in., 220 lb. midriff-bulging country bumpkin type, who lets his tongue hang out when he swings a golf club. Hill had to win out over those two clowns, and I had to beat the fat old schlock-slingers who never left the press tent with some real, live first-person coverage of the final round...
Down the road, meanwhile, the U.N. troops were folding up tents in which Israeli and Syrian officers had worked out the details of the cease-fire and disengagement. "They didn't play Ping Pong here, no sir," an Irish colonel said, indicating inside the largest tent a Ping Pong table used by U.N. officers as a conference board. "They didn't even talk to each other." Instead, a Syrian officer would stand at the entrance at one end of the tent and an Israeli officer would stand at the entrance at the other end. A U.N. officer would...
Chautauquas were a form of adult education for farmers and tradespeople that flourished in the last half of the nineteenth century. They were a cross between the travelling tent-show and the camp-meeting. They were the country relatives of the Lyceum lectures where Whitman exhorted and praised the "common man" and Emerson taught him philosophy. Pirsig's harking back to this old American institution, his one man revival of that vein of democratic oratory is not sentimental. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance offers intellectual challenge, a real critical education in the philosophy of science that sounds...
Christian Life. Visitors pay for tent space and meals according to their means. Some join group discussions, especially concerning ways of living a Christian life in modern society. Others combine half-days of farm work with periods of silent contemplation; still others make more structured individual retreats under the guidance of one of the brothers. But the key element is their roughhewn communal life. "Here words and actions come together," says a French girl named Marie-Joseph. "Here we see what it is like to live and work and discuss and play together, what it is like to form...