Word: trivia
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...Shibe Park's power alley. Still, there is nothing like the day-to-day exhilaration of a pennant race to lend life--whether it is endured in a crusty New England college or not a hot inner-city alley--a sharpness. Furthermore, I will be the first to castigate trivia fiends as obscurantists, conservatives, or reactionary nostalgoids...
...longer than any other organized pro sport in the United States and with each passing season increases that margin in time played. While no other sport boasts even 1000 playing hours a season, baseball teams play close to 6000 a year and make the game the unrivalled quarry for trivia hunters...
...professorial life has a much more leisurely pace than the diplomatic," says former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban. "Also," he says, "there is less trivia." He should know, having taught classics and Oriental languages at Cambridge before entering Israeli politics nearly three decades ago. Last week the mellifluous-voiced ex-minister was back in class again, this time as a visiting professor at Columbia University's School of International Affairs. Eban has had time on his hands since he was shuffled out of the Israeli Cabinet in a governmental shake-up last May. But he will return to Israel...
...partner of 16 years, Lieutenant Governor Malcolm Wilson, and busied himself with his newly constituted National Commission on Critical Choices for Americans, which was created to grapple with the major issues of the day. The commission would give him the opportunity to think big without political trivia getting in the way. It might help launch him into national office, and if he got there, it could provide valuable assistance. The commission was modeled on an earlier endeavor, America at Mid-Century, a study set up in 1956 with young Harvard Professor Henry Kissinger as one of its directors...
...well pay a dollar for the membership and get the annual rebate on your purchases--about 7 per cent this year. But remember that a charge card at the Coop is not the best incentive to adhere to a strict budget if you have to worry about such trivia...