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A national festival is an occasion to refine and rebuild the national character.

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.

Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

I don't think there is a national pasttime. Watching TV is a national pasttime. Really. If there is a national pasttime, it is watching TV.

There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever.

Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.

Eventing is way too dangerous. People get killed every year doing cross-country.

Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.