At one point he talks about "a chaotic, often inept, first term filled with abstract victories and concrete defeats," then proceeds to write that "by any fair accounting" of that period, "Bill Clinton was running a very serious presidency -- and yet his administration, as portrayed in the media and perceived by the political community in Washington, seemed trivial, juvenile, a circus".
A few days after Uruguay's defeat to Germany, I decided to write a history of Latin America through its football.
As in Sebald, what moves the prose forward is not event or contrivance but a steady, accidental inquiry, a firm pressurelessness (which is to say, what moves the prose forward is the prose — the desire to write, to defeat solitude by writing).
We loved each of the authors for their triumphs over the forces of banality, contrivance, predictability, thinness, falseness, randomness, tidiness, and all the other forces that defeat almost everyone reckless enough to write fiction at all.
Test Match Special summariser Tufnell, who took 121 wickets in 42 Tests, added: "It takes a very strong team to write that defeat at The Oval off as a bad day at the office.
While everyone ate roughly the same quantity of food, their choices differed: those who were asked to write about defeats tended toward the fat-saturated foods, while the others made more healthful choices.
Again, those describing a big win preferred the healthier snacks; those who had to write about a narrow defeat comforted themselves with something waist-expanding.
France was lambasted for its poor form in the pool stage, ridiculed after its 19-14 defeatoTongangandand written off by most critics before it had even taken the field to face England in the quarterfinals.
"You would be unbeatable and you would help greatly to defeat Governor Dewey, Harold Ickess wrote to Eleanor Roosevelt on May 21 , 1945 urging her to run for the United States Senate from New York.
