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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...energies. In addition, tennis offers a rare chance to manipulate our lens-like perspectives. It allows us to narrowly focus our perspectives to the level of the game and enjoy its intensity. However, at the same time, by opening the lens further, we can allow the larger context to flood...
...because there exists this larger context, one shouldn't underestimate the importance of tennis. Every activity in each of our lives, as well as our lives themselves, shares a similar subservience to the larger scope. The larger perspective, when opened full tilt, can reduce anything to triviality...
...call tennis only a game--a part of a larger context--remember that in a sense our activities and our lives are games, as well. And if you call tennis a game because its rules are clearer and its inequities and ambiguities have been removed, realize that it is, at least a very good game of games...
...first section of the book, "Prairie," is full of comparisons of East and West, of the old life with the new, of landscapes: "Where are the seagulls?" While Tamsen is not reluctant to move, she notes strange details in a larger context: "We change in relation to the land. We become smaller...
...five courses and a seminar subsidized by the Kennedy Interfaculty Program in Medical Ethics, the course is part of an ongoing project begun in 1971 to present biomedical questions in the context of ethics, Dyck says...