For a couple of days before the game, the sports pages of the New York newspapers were crammed with headlines, articles, and even cartoons comparing Bradley and Russell, asking which was the better player, and looking toward what one paper called the most momentous individual confrontation in ten years of basketball.
Ten individual confrontation cultures have been performed with qualitatively similar results.
Any weakness in the individual confrontations will, I suspect, be exploited by the visitors.
Unlike, say, baseball, which is primarily a sequence of individual confrontations, basketball is the consummate team sport and thus a game of positive and negative externalities.
In that respect, he has resembled his stylistic opposite, Geoff Boycott: endured by his team-mates for what he brings on the pitch rather than ever being one of the boys, a self-obsessed essential in a team sport that is decided by individual confrontations.
Whoever his captain with England, the impression has been the same: like his stylistic opposite, Geoff Boycott, a player endured by his team-mates for what he brings on the pitch rather than ever being one of the boys, a self-obsessed essential in a team sport that is decided by individual confrontations.
Yalom [ 23] asserts that there is a basic human conflict "that flows from the individual's confrontation with the givens of existence" (p. 8).
If an aggressive individual continues the confrontation, calmly accuse them of harassment.
"In real life, he's one of the shyest, kindest, most unassuming, total lack of ego, nonconfrontational — he hates confrontation — individuals I have ever met".
From there, the opera proceeds in an alternation of individual testimony, enacted confrontations and reflective choruses, evoking both the circumstances of the hijacking and its broader ramifications.
In other words, these data show that, in a direct social confrontation, individuals' choice behavior is more strongly affected by the feelings of envy and gloating than by the emotions of regret or relief.
