In praise of athletic beauty

"By the hundreds of millions we show up, stand in line, turn on, and tune in to watch, mesmerized, as athletes perform. And yet this experience, so widely craved and intensely felt, we commonly dismiss as "only a game." The vicarious thrill, anxiety release, competitive spirit: in pla...

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Uniform Title: Lob des sports. English
Main Author: Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich.
Format: Book
Language: English
French
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.
Physical Description: 263 pages ; 19 cm.
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