A. Bartlett Giamatti
Educator
1938-04-04 – 1989-09-01
Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamatti was an American professor of English Renaissance literature, the president of Yale University, and the seventh commissioner of Major League Baseball.
Books by A. Bartlett Giamatti
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The earthly paradise and the Renaissance epic
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A free and ordered space
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Take time for paradise
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Quotes by A. Bartlett Giamatti
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If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.
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Sports represent a shared vision of how we continue, as individual, team, or community, to experience a happiness or absence of care so intense, so rare, and so fleeting that we associate their experience with experience otherwise described as religious or we say the sports experience must be the tattered remnant of an experience which was once described, when first felt, as religious.
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Romance is about putting things aright after some tragedy has put them asunder. It is about restoration of the right relations among things and going home is where that restoration occurs because that is where it matters most.
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Sports represent a shared vision of how we continue, as individual, team, or community, to experience a happiness or absence of care so intense, so rare, and so fleeting that we associate their experience with experience otherwise described as religious or we say the sports experience must be the tattered remnant of an experience which was once described, when first felt, as religious.
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If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.
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Romance is about putting things aright after some tragedy has put them asunder. It is about restoration of the right relations among things and going home is where that restoration occurs because that is where it matters most.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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