The only message I am getting from Board, is that I must learn to hate which I can not do Sorry.for not being more obliging to hate.
Henie did a lot for figure skating perhaps more than anyone else. That is my point.
Joe.
Politicial criticism does not equal hatred or denigration. It equals political criticism, a perfectly legitimate form of intellectual discourse.
Shostakovich is my favorite composer, and I think he made some political compromises that were less than admirable. (And I recognize that's easy for me to say since I didn't have to live in that time and place.)
As to the original question, I'm not all that fond of "statement" programs. No intellectually high-falutin' reason. Just my preference.
My dad is in the latter stages of Alzheimer's now, but he used to love to watch figure skating. At the end of a broadcast, no matter which great ladies skated, he would always say ... but NONE of them is Sonia!
Susan