Word: trivia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each meeting he painstakingly explores possible avenues of conversation with each participant, managing in the end to ensure that thinkers with various viewpoints will speak to the same issue. Goldwin puts a premium on spontaneity but sometimes fears that the academics will waste the President's time with trivia. In preparation for the first dinner-seminar he held, he spent at least five hours with each guest and bluntly informed them that he considered some of their ideas peripheral...
...astonishing that in a sport whose devoted followers can recall such trivia as Fenton Mole's lifetime batting average, the name Moe Berg seems all but forgotten. Casey Stengel called him "the strangest fellah who ever put on a uniform." The strange thing was that Berg played major league baseball at all. Unlike Stengel, who it is said became a ballplayer after discovering that he was a lefthanded dentistry student in a world of righthanded dental equipment, Berg was suited to do just about anything. He had an IQ that could not have been too far behind his career...
...mind is responsible for exams coinciding with the month of January. One of my roommates, a West Coast innocent, once asked plaintively, "Doesn't it ever stop raining here?" If the weather is getting you down, cheer up. Here is what must pass for the annual Crimson sports trivia quiz...
...Harvard athletics. (Who cares, after all, about some fencing match or a Radcliffe field hockey game?) That is when obscure nuggets of information like the one he gave Restic are useful: sports reporters are a lazy lot, Matthews knows, and if he can dig up some interesting bit of trivia for them about a Harvard team, they will use it. And that is what Dave Matthews is paid to do: help sportswriters and hype Harvard. He is very good...
...Glory and the Dream, depending on how one reads it, is Pop history, a nostalgia trip or the world's biggest trivia contest. Manchester (as he showed in The Death of a President, 1967) is one of those writers who find their supreme joy only in the presence of a fact, and sometimes it doesn't seem to matter what sort of a fact it is. When Astronaut Neil Armstrong took his "one small step for man," the reader is going to know it was in a boot sized 9½B. The day President Eisenhower suffered...