· When it comes to the “sweet science of bruising,” the author’s taste is discriminatory; perhaps unsurprisingly, he prefers brain over brawn. This is evidenced in the essay “Ahab and Nemesis,” which documents the Rocky Marciano vs Archie Moore battle for the heavyweight crown in In Liebling’s view, Marciano, aka “The Brockton Blockbuster,” is better off not being trained on the trivia Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. The Sweet Science is written in the prose of a skilled writer and the content is that of someone with very keen insight on the intricacies of the noble art. Liebling brings New York of the s to life superbly - the bars, taxi rides and, of course, the atmosphere at fight nights are all captured www.doorway.ru by: A.J. Liebling's classic New Yorker pieces on the "sweet science of bruising" bring vividly to life the boxing world as it once was. It depicts the great events of boxing's American heyday: Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to prominence, Joe Louis's unfortunate decline. Liebling never fails to find the human story behind the fight, and he evokes the atmosphere in the 5/5(4).
by A.J. Liebling. Write a review. I have read no other book on Boxing that accurately captures this the way Liebling does in The Sweet Science. He's also an accomplished and erudite writer, a highly cultured man who brings that cultural sensitvity to something often considered, by those ignorant of these things, to be base and low-brow. ― A.J. Liebling, The Sweet Science. 1 likes. Like "Khrushchev, too, looks like the kind of man his physicians must continually try to diet, and historians will some day correlate these sporadic deprivations, to which he submits "for his own good," with his public tantrums. If there is to be a world cataclysm, it will probably be set off. For this weekend's reading, here are two of Liebling's pieces on the "sweet science": "The Morest" and "Ahab and Nemesis." "The Morest" describes the infamous two-minute-and.
A.J. Liebling's classic New Yorker pieces on the "sweet science of bruising" bring vividly to life the boxing world as it once was. It depicts the great events of boxing's American heyday: Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to prominence, Joe Louis's unfortunate decline. Liebling never fails to find the human story behind the fight, and he evokes the atmosphere in the arena as distinctly as he does the goings-on in the ring—a combination that prompted Sports. The Sweet Science is written in the prose of a skilled writer and the content is that of someone with very keen insight on the intricacies of the noble art. Liebling brings New York of the s to life superbly - the bars, taxi rides and, of course, the atmosphere at fight nights are all captured vividly. New Yorker. Liebling joined The New Yorker in His best pieces from the late thirties are collected in Back Where I Came From () and The Telephone Booth Indian (). During World War II, Liebling was active as a war correspondent, filing many stories from Africa, England, and France.
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