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...admit I've never been much of a winter Olympic fan, but I think that's largely due to the fact that the winter games always seemed to be studded with rather crazy competitions designed to capture the thrill of viewing the agony of defeat...
...ALWAYS been pretty morbid. Saturday afternoon's most gripping moment was always the beginning of ABC Wide World of Sports: "the thrill of victory" (as Pele lays in a goal on a soccer field and a teammate throws him up in the air) "and the agony of defeat" as an Olympic ski-jumper slides sideways off a 70 meter jump, taking a few saplings with him on the way to the infirmary. But this year's coverage of the Winter Olympics wins the all-time Hubert-Humphrey-"I-was-a-Jew-once-myself" Poor Taste Award, not just for morbidity...
...raft drifters (not like lush Iowa to the south) into South Dakota, the Badlands and Wall Drug and the Black Hills, a bit of Wyoming and up into shy-range country at Montana, through Idaho and Washington to Seattle the road continues this way, but before Rochester the biggest thrill is crossing the border into New York State. Then you know you're going home. Not that any sudden rush of sentimental elation sweeps over the resident of western New York at the tollbooth, but it's just different, immediately, for Massachusetts has a tidy feeling all its own that...
...dyspeptic philosophers" of anti-technology who would deny human beings the right to desire material comforts. Florman then offers an "existential" philosophy for his profession. Quoting widely from such sources as Homer, the Old Testament, Henry Adams and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, he lists joys available to his colleagues: the thrill derived from an elegant solution to a problem; the absorption in the workings of a machine; the satisfaction of having created something that will help one's fellow...
...tremendous honor," he continued. "It lets you know how the other guys on the team feel about you. It shows that they have a great amount of respect for you, and that's as much of a thrill...