For years, the tennis establishment complained as Venus and Serena Williams defiantly dabbled in side ventures that were not going to help them in the historical pursuit of Graf and the other women's legends.
To turn your nose up at darts is to belittle a game that is etched deeper into our national character than most, an historical pursuit that so many have learned in parallel with the long and often messy apprenticeship of finding one's level as a beer-drinker.
This is New England, home of the free and brave, and the leaders in our nation's historical pursuit for independence, emancipation, and a higher literary purpose.
The Romanian director Radu Jude pioneers a new genre — the Wallachian Western — and brings style and insight to a historical tale of pursuit and persecution.
The authors argue convincingly that "much of modern religious radicalism can be traced to earlier groups and theologies", and also that "it is impossible to understand sects like the Branch Davidians without this historical perspective".The pursuit of these connections leads in all manner of interesting directions.
This research is principally motivated by the historical development of pursuit problems found in the mathematics and science literature, which dates as far back as 1732 and yet continues to be of current interest.
For practitioners of the D.I.Y. aesthetic and supporters of the green movement, it's a chance to see the historical precedent of your pursuits.
And its power comes not from high-concept homilies but from the relentless pursuit of historical details: the sight of the moving earth.
A similar situation revisits the city now, as government authorities do as they please, obliterating any number of historical structures in the pursuit of unfettered development.
