Word: woodenness
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Blame the homecomings on boredom, nostalgia or an indomitable drive to compete ("I got the itch," Favre reportedly told teammate Al Harris). But not all comebacks are success stories. Just ask Bjorn Borg, who left tennis in 1983 and un-retired in 1991, wooden racquet in hand. He didn't win a single match that year...
...favorite inanimate thing - and I have owned many things - was an old wooden boat. She was sixteen feet long and too heavy to lift, and I could just barely drag her over a sandbar to the water. She had been, long before, a lifeboat on a ship. They made her lapstraked and beautiful back then, and strong. But they did make her heavy; it took three strokes just to get her moving. Get her going, though, and boy she went - she rowed out straight as a city street, through waves and wind with a wonderful, easy motion. As a young...
...usually work as well as it did in that patient. But its there in all living things - an automatic machinery that works against the laws of nature. We can call it hypercomplexity, or fearful and wondrous manufacture, but no one who works closely with it, or has loved a wooden rowboat, can call it "natural...
...Youth Day, a week-long celebration of Catholic faith that will culminate July 21 in a Mass on the city's Randwick Racecourse. On Monday, while Pope Benedict XVI recovered from jet lag in a rural retreat, throngs chanted hymns and took turns carrying a 12-foot (3.8-m) wooden cross through the city's streets. In St. Mary's Cathedral, people lit candles and knelt to pray before a casket holding the remains of Italian youth worker Pier Giorgio Frassati, which had been shipped to Australia for the occasion. In a small convent chapel on the other side...
...Laura, 23, from Milan, Italy, is part of a group that's accompanied the wooden cross - she likens it to the Olympic Torch - around Australia. They've received nothing but smiles, she says: "Australians are very welcoming." She hopes World Youth Day will provoke the secular to reflect more about faith: "Seeing all these people who come from all over the world - and it's a hard and long trip - maybe they will think, This must be something important." Maybe even as important as the football finals...