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Alistair Cooke Biography

Alistair Cooke KBE (20 November 1908 – 30 March 2004) was a British-American journalist, television personality and broadcaster. Outside his journalistic output, which included Letter from America and Alistair Cooke's America, he was well known in the United States as the host of PBS Masterpiece Theatre from 1971 to 1992. After holding the job for 22 years, and having worked in television for 42 years, Cooke retired in 1992, although he continued to present Letter from America until shortly before his death. He was the father of author and folk singer John Byrne Cooke.

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Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

Cocktails, Accepted, Music Is, Music, Audible

If computers take over, it will serve us right.

Computer, Computers, Ifs, Over It, Right, Serve

To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer. ' Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken - only tougher.

Cowboy, Food, People, Say, Tenderer, Unbeliever

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

Fellow, Fellow Man, Habit, Men

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

Contributing, Debunked, Dies, Facts, Myth, Sports

They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.

Golf, Playing, Said, Satisfactorily, Years

In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.

Essence, Game, Games, Golf, Humiliations

The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.

Golf, Government, Littles, Possible, Presidency, Thing

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

America, Country, Oyster, Oysters, People

I wrote to Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I said: "Here is the sentence once written by the immortal Bobby Jones. I thought you might like to have it done in needlepoint and mounted in a suitable frame to hang over Little John's bed. It says, The rewards of golf - and of life, too, I expect - are worth very little if you don't play the game by the etiquette as well as by the rules. " I never heard from Mr. McEnroe, Senior. I can only conclude that the letter went astray.

Bed, Games, Golf, Senior, Sentence

To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end.

Continuous, Golf, Practice, Result, Subtle, Swings

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Music, Music Is, Like, Wallpaper, Audible, Canned

The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.

Garden, Golf, Like, Party

There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules.

Book, Games, Golf, Human, Literature

Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.

Discipline, Imposed, Liberty, Luxury, Nations, Self

New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.

Biggest, Cities In The World, New York, Village, Villages, World

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Curiosity, Intelligence, Wheeling

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.

Believe, America, People, Foul, Times

So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or shudder, at the fleets of electric carts going off in the morning like the first assault wave at the Battle of El Alamein. It is unlikely, for some time, that a Briton will come across in his native land such a scorecard as Henry Longhurst rescued from a California club and cherished till the day he died. The last on its list of local rules printed the firm warning "A Player on Foot Has No Standing on the Course. "

Day, Golf, Morning, Player, Scorecard, Wave

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.

Created, Equal, Equality, Law, Men, Time

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