She liked the scattering of poems.

Just take a minute to read today's verse and really let it sink in.

One, dressed as an American tourist, belts out the final verses, ending with: "If this is socialism, we want it too.

Critical moments like these are to the sports fan what the beautiful lines of a poem are to an avid reader.

I merely remembered these verses came from the Soviet novel How Was the Steel Tempered .