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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Ted Gioia
Jan 1, 2000
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I was speaking to an audience in England some years ago, when I was asked: “Why are American sports so violent?” To which I mounted a lukewarm defense of the NFL: “Hey, at least our violence is on the field, not in the stands”—a perhaps uncharitable reference to the tradition of soccer hooliganism, which the British have virtually elevated to a lifestyl…

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