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Impressive freshman Dave Silk opened the game scoring at 11:12, when he deflected an O'Neill point drive past a helpless Petrovek. At 12:19, Bob Boileau made it 2-0 with a backhand flip between Petro's pads, the finish of a nice play set up by Mike Eruzione's fine rush down the left boards...
Self-restraint is a must in television interviewing also. Mike Wallace began as a hard-edged, on-camera prosecutor, but has since developed an effective backhand-a disarming, disbelieving smile when confronted with obviously unpersuasive answers. The thoughtful Edwin Newman is so self-effacing that at times he seems to be turning away from the camera. Barbara Walters often offers a quickstep apology for asking a sharp question, then zeroes right in. Bill Moyers is a moralizer whose imponderable "big" questions sometimes drive his hapless subjects to embarrassingly hasty profundities. But all of these interviewers know that their...
...romance and tennis what the late P.G. Wodehouse did for love and golf in stories like The Heart of a Goof and The Clicking of Cuthbert. Nor has any opera or fairy tale yet taken up the game. Still, whenever a starry-eyed young thing with a shaky backhand contemplates courtship and marriage through mixed doubles, some dreadful figure should come out of the woodwork, wave a gnarled ringer and howl: "Beware, my pretty! Tennis may prove no bond but a curse." The best warning that exists is a Buchwald column about a tennis-blighted romance between Patty...
...level of discourse is not high. It is also likely to be hortatory and derisive. "Watch the ball, dummy. Watch the ball!" According to Gallwey, such self-abuse is highly destructive. So is what he calls the "Oh-Oh Experience"?as in "Oh-Oh! Here comes a backhand." Gallwey pioneered "yoga tennis" (or Zennis, as some people call it). From his Inner Game Institute above Malibu Beach, Calif., he has urged hundreds of thousands of students, TV viewers and readers to improve their game by shutting up that judgmental and frightened voice. Stop trying so hard, he argues...
...Louis Cardinals of 1967 because these blessed people, athletes, don't allow for bullshit: the participant is viewed by a full stadium and the people in their living rooms, he either comes through with men on base or he doesn't, either makes the necessary magnificent backhand on grass or doesn't Language is too often used as a smokescreen for banality or as with pieces like Tom Wolfe's, excuses for grand meanness and superiority. Action seems more honest and the supreme action in these days of American political quiescence--the action which we can all see and understand...