Sport is an art: it has incredible appeal everywhere on this earth, and it fills so many human hearts with passion that it's impossible to dismiss.
Interpretation
Sports evoke deep emotional connections and admiration across cultures.
In this quote, Frank Deford emphasizes the universal appeal of sports as an art form that resonates with people worldwide. He suggests that the passion generated by sports captivates hearts, making it a significant aspect of human experience that cannot be easily overlooked or disregarded.
In practice
In discussions about the cultural impact of sports at an international conference.
I think there are more good sportswriters doing more good sportswriting than ever before. But I also believe that the one thing that's largely gone out is what made sport such fertile literary territory - the characters, the tales, the humor, the pain, what Hollywood calls 'the arc.'
So much about big-time college sports is criticized. But the worst scandal is almost never mentioned: the academic fraud wherein the student-athletes, so-called, are admitted without even remotely adequate credentials and then aren't educated so much as they are just kept eligible.
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Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set you apart from other dancers. The only way you can be different is to be yourself if you don't find your spirit and reveal it, you just look like every other dancer.
It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
Simple ingredients, treated with respect... put them together and you will always have a great dish.
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