Sports Authorities Research Articles

The Situation and Developmental Tendencies of Marxist-Leninist Sport Sociology in the German Democratic Republic (GDR)

This contribution presents an overview on essential contents and organsiational forms of marxist Sport Sociology in the GDR in its prozess of development. Without separating the various stages or periods, these presentations provide insights into the variety of teaching and research work achieved during the past years up to the present time standpoints on the development of sience as a theoretical and methodological reqierement are offered as well as the close relations and their dependence on sport science and general sociology. The unity of science and practice as a principle of its effeciency is explained by the social requirements of the sozialist development in the GDR. Particular stress is placed upon the contributive capacity and responsibility to scientifically analyse complex social prozesses and phenomena to efficiently improve planning and management by the sport authorities of this country.

Lithuania's representative in Soviet basketball: Žalgiris-Kaunas

Sports play a complicated role in Soviet life, on the mass level contributing to the physical fitness of the society and on the elite level testifying to the society's use of its resources and to the perfectability of man.1 Soviet sports authorities freely talk of their concern for healthy workers and soldiers, and the basic fitness award in the Soviet Union is called Ready for Labor and Defense ( GTO or Gotov k trudu i oborone ). Victories by Soviet athletes in international competition, on the other hand, bespeak success in the development of the physical potential of mankind. The establishment of major sports leagues that encompass the breadth of the Soviet Union aims both at improving competition and at recognizing the multinational character of the Soviet state.

Political Name Calling

pOLITICAL name calling is as American as the wearing of campaign but1 tons. The 1940 presidential battle was no exception-in the closing days of the campaign the recitation of three names, 'Martin, Barton, and Fish,' became, for the Democrats, the political epithet supreme. But the hurling of verbal or written brickbats is not confined to the period before election day, and this has been especially apparent during the almost continuously controversial days since Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the White House in 1933. During all, or most, of that period, three other names stand out-Johnson, Pegler, and Ickes. General Hugh Johnson has been on both sides of the fence (sometimes simultaneously); Westbrook Pegler, since he graduated from sports authority to political commentator, has been anti-New Deal; Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, has been the most outspoken defender of the Roosevelt administration. Pegler and Johnson have worked for the most part through the medium of their syndicated newspaper columns, although the General has been a public speaker on many occasions. Ickes has carried on his part of the running battle chiefly as a speaker. The collection given here of the fighting words of these three prominent public figures does not pretend to be complete. Too many damns have flowed over the words. Pegler himself once referred to the proclivity of certain 'liberals' for 'free and insulting speech.' This, then, is a sampling of the obviously free and undoubtedly insulting speech of Johnson, Pegler, and Ickes, compiled, not from the point of view of the historian or the political scientist, but simply as a case study of how certain representative Americans use their language when they go forth to political battle.l During the first Roosevelt administration, General Johnson's tongue and typewriter battered away at the Republican opposition. Some of the opponents of the New Deal were the scum of intellectual prostitutes; others were academic mercenaries; and Republican thinkers were intellectual