Word: cinderellas
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...Edda Buding, 6-1, 6-0, then beat the fourth-ranked American woman, Mary Ann Eisel, in the second round, saving six match points with finely honed strokes that would soon become famous: cross-court forehands and sweeping, two-fisted backhands down the line. Suddenly she was "Little Chrissie, Cinderella in Sneakers," enthroned on center court. She whipped the fifth seed, Franchise Durr, and Australian Lesley Hunt. She reached the semifinals, the youngest player ever to climb to the final four, before finally losing to Billie Jean King, the eventual champion. A most extraordinary athletic career had begun...
...Cinderella Complex, Dowling...
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...eerie omnipotence of the adult world. "The fairy tale," adds Bettelheim, "offers solutions in ways that the child can grasp on his level of understanding." For girls and boys, those solutions do not invariably come through identification with the strong, but often with the bewildered, prefeminist likes of Cinderella and Snow White...