Now the nation must store up its psychic strength for hockey.
"The Corvette's horsepower, like the length of women's skirts," Mr. Ingrassia writes, "proved a reliable indicator of America's economic and psychic strength.
Power could be exercised by only one person one who simultaneously had the necessary physical (individual and corporate) and spiritual (psychic) strength and influence over both people and objects.
And yet the same scene suggests the endurance of a psychic strength that Americans like to claim for ourselves, at least in the mythologized version of our history: Hard times create a collective response.
Where both teams found their psychic strength is one of those mysteries that make sport so appealing, beyond the ludicrous latter-day salaries and the MTV-style posturing by celebrity jocks.
But the slaves refused to relinquish the rhythms that gave them ''the physical and psychic strength to endure,'' and made music however and wherever they could.
Fighting Defensive strengths: Bug, Rock, Dark Defensive weaknesses: Flying, Psychic Offensive strengths: Normal, Ice, Rock, Dark, Steel Offensive weaknesses: Poison, Flying, Psychic, Bug.
Psychic Defensive strengths: Fighting, Psychic Defensive weaknesses: Bug, Ghost, Dark Offensive strengths: Fighting, Poison Offensive weaknesses: Psychic, Steel.
Ghost Defensive strengths: Poison, Bug Defensive weaknesses: Ghost, Dark Offensive strengths: Psychic, Ghost Offensive weaknesses: Dark, Steel.
Dark Defensive strengths: Ghost, Dark Defensive weaknesses: Fighting, Bug Offensive strengths: Psychic, Ghost Offensive weaknesses: Dark, Steel, Fighting.
Bug Defensive strengths: Grass, Ground, Fighting Defensive weaknesses: Fire, Flying, Rock Offensive strengths: Grass, Psychic, Dark Offensive weaknesses: Fire, Fighting, Poison, Flying, Ghost, Steel.
