Word: thrums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...indifferent to sports may have a greater stake in Giamatti's struggle than they realize. The central question hinges on whether collective celebrations should reflect or ennoble their societies. Reflection, these days, means augmented, intensified doses of behavior already lamentably available on the streets: rudeness, insensitivity, the steady thrum of flash-point violence. Bart thinks he has an older, better idea: orderly, considerate crowds in clean, pleasant surroundings, absorbed in a leisurely spectacle performed by happy, fulfilled heroes. How could people exposed to such idyllic wonders fail to carry some of their experiences out into the streets and their...
This year a note of truculence may thrum now and then in the holiday; prayers for the hostages will sound and some rhetorical menace will be aimed at ayatullahs and other Iranians. The nation will brighten itself with parades and fireworks and concerts in the park, and cute local events like the porcupine race in Council, Idaho. Patriotism and nostalgia will gust among the picnickers. But on the whole, American morale may not be up to a convincingly exuberant Fourth. In the years since Viet Nam, the U.S. has accumulated a few sorrows that, if not worthy...