[Vision2020] Boxing
DonaldH675@aol.com
DonaldH675@aol.com
Thu, 27 Feb 2003 02:42:41 EST
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Dear Visionaries,
At first I was puzzled that our local *Christian* school would sponsor a
fight night. Why would anyone pay to watch youngsters (and older "heavy
weights") demonstrated how adroitly they can turn the other cheek? On the
other hand, what kind of person could describe this abusive spectacle as a
"night of fun?"
Then it struck me that Joyce Carol Oates had it exactly right. "[Boxing is] a
celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for
its being lost." Joyce Carol Oates On Boxing Doubleday 87, quoted in
Newsweek 9 Mar 87.
Rosemary Huskey
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Then it struck me that Joyce Carol Oates had it exactly right. "[Boxing is]=20=
a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for=
its being lost." Joyce Carol Oates <U>On Boxing</U> Doubleday 87, quo=
ted in Newsweek 9 Mar 87.<BR>
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Rosemary Huskey<BR>
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