George F. Will Quotes
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
Topics
Competition
Entertainment
Amusement
Grand Canyon
Grandeur
Perspective
Recreation
Significance
Spectacle
Sports, Athletics
Understatement
Magnificence
Comparison
Leisure Activity
Natural Wonder
Nuanced Thinking
Relative Importance
Sports Metaphor
Value Judgment
Context Matters
Simplistic Views
Citations
Will, George F. Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball. Macmillan, 1990, p. 1.
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George Frederick Will is an American libertarian-conservative political commentator and author. He writes regular columns for The Washington Post and provides commentary for NBC News and MSNBC. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann (1889–1974). He won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1977.