No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in themselves and their institutions.

Although the Jeffersonian Law ("All men are created equal") is the first article of the American faith, the facts of American life have demonstrated for some time now that it is an irksome faith to live by.

The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there.

Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.