Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chapters was on the theory of definition; we found we could agree. It's a most extraordinary experience, finding you can agree with someone. Decades later it wasn't the case that we could understand one another at all. That is a useful thing to think of, that a first intellectual encounter can result in almost complete malcomprehension on both sides and at every point...
Wrestling can be comic--if you don't take the opponents or the crowd seriously. But if you are not immediately amused and examine what's going on inside and outside the ring, the whole thing can become grotestquely depressing...
...reaciton last Tuesday night was to take the wrestlers at Boston Garden seriously. Watching a midget scamper around the ring and pretend to be frightened of another midget impressed me as being just about the most demeaning thing a man could do. Seeing someone sacrifice his human dignity and his manliness for a laugh isn't my idea of comedy...
...something that had once made me laugh. Here was one more thing that was no longer a positive experience for me. Just as seeing the Indians get slaughtered by the Cavalry is no longer something I clap...
...medical aid. But the sly possum suddenly jumped to his feet, not a mark on him, and strode into the dressing room with a sinister grin on his face, basking in the hatred of the fans and confident that next week would be a packed house. -"My Father the Thing," by Joe Jares Sports Illustrated (March...