By Abbott Joseph Liebling
A.J. Liebling's vintage New Yorker items at the "sweet technological know-how of bruising" deliver vividly to existence the boxing global because it as soon as was once. It depicts the good occasions of boxing's American heyday: Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's upward push to prominence, Joe Louis's unlucky decline. Liebling by no means fails to discover the human tale at the back of the struggle, and he inspires the ambience within the area as extraordinarily as he does the goings-on within the ring--a mix that caused activities Illustrated to call The candy technology the easiest American activities publication of all time.
Read or Download The sweet science PDF
Best essays & correspondence books
Eye of My Heart: 27 Writers Reveal the Hidden Pleasures and Perils of Being a Grandmother
In Eye of My middle, twenty-seven shrewdpermanent, gutsy writers explode myths and stereotypes and inform the full loopy, complex fact approximately being a grandmother in latest global. one of the individuals: Anne Roiphe learns—the tough way—to preserve her mouth close and her evaluations to herself. Elizabeth Berg marvels at witnessing her baby provide delivery to her baby.
Schopenhauer, Philosophy and the Arts
This assortment brings jointly 13 new essays through essentially the most revered modern students of Schopenhauer's aesthetics from a large spectrum of philosophical views. It examines the original idea Schopenhauer constructed to provide an explanation for the lifestyles and paintings of the artist, and the impact his aesthetic philosophy has had on next creative traditions in such different parts as tune, portray, poetry, literature, and structure.
Medical pondering is a realistic advisor to inductive reasoning - this type of reasoning that's popular in medical job, even if such job is played by means of a scientist, a political pollster, or anybody folks informally on a daily foundation. The e-book offers finished assurance in twenty-three chapters divided into 3 components: "Induction, Proportions and Correlations," "Explanations," and "Cause.
About psychology : essays at the crossroads of history, theory, and philosophy
A severe and historic evaluation of psychology on the crossroads
Extra resources for The sweet science
Sample text
But this mature Baer, who had fought everybody, was frightened stiff by the twenty-one-year-old mulatto boy. Louis outclassed him. The whole thing went only four rounds. There hadn’t been anybody remotely like Louis since Dempsey in the early twenties. The week of the Louis—Baer fight, a man I know wrote in a magazine: “With half an eye, one can observe that the town is more full of stir than it has been in many moons. It is hard to find a place to park, hard to get a table in a restaurant, hard to answer all the phone calls … .
Besides, there are a lot of unblighted areas like Cuba and North Africa and Siam that are beginning to turn out a lot of fighters now. The immediate crisis in the United States, forestalling the one high living standards might bring on, has been caused by the popularization of a ridiculous gadget called television. This is utilized in the sale of beer and razor blades. The clients of the television companies, by putting on a free boxing show almost every night of the week, have knocked out of business the hundreds of small-city and neighborhood boxing clubs where youngsters had a chance to learn their trade and journeymen to mature their skills.
To put them in their place, you address neither them nor their man but your man. ) This throws them off balance, because they haven’t noticed anything the matter with either eye. ” It doesn’t much matter whether or not the man has been hit in the eye; he will be. Addressing yourself to the fighter when you want somebody else to hear you is a parliamentary device, like “Mr. Chairman …” Before television, a prize-fight was to a New Yorker the nearest equivalent to the New England town meeting. It taught a man to think on his seat.
