Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conspicuously progressive Law School, Stewart made waves when he supported Supreme Court nominee Judge Robert H. Bork and opposed a tenure offer to radical contracts scholar Clare Dalton...
Having lost three-time Captain and four-year starter Maia Forman from the setter position, the Crimson enters the season with little experience at the most important post on the court. To counteract the lack of experience, Lem will probably start this season employing the 6-2 lineup with two setters running the offense he experimented with last year...
...career matches and won almost 90% of them. For 13 straight years, she took at least one of the four annual Grand Slam titles; for 14 straight years, she ranked first, second or third in the world. Her favorite victory came at age 15 over Margaret Smith Court, mere weeks after Court completed a sweep of the Grand Slams. But her finest moment was probably in the final of the 1986 French Open, when she fought back from a set down to defeat her most esteemed rival, Martina Navratilova, and win the title for a record seventh time. The competition...
...seeking quick winners. She was ordinary in strength of serve and speed of hand and foot. But she was extraordinary in the precision and timing of her passing shots, her high, looping moon balls, her lobs that landed as if by radar in unreachable corners of the court. Above all, she seemed nerveless. She did not fret about the point just past, however irritating her own error or an official's miscall, and she did not think about what would come next. She focused, with almost icy calm, on the moment and the ball. "My whole career," she recalled last...
...shameful and ominous. Evert went on to Wimbledon, a tournament that had been her nemesis (she lost seven of ten finals) but a place steeped in the traditions she reveres. She loves to quote the phrase from Rudyard Kipling's If that is inscribed above the doors to Centre Court: "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/ And treat those two impostors just the same . . ." When Evert lost in the semifinals, the cheers were not for the victor of that match, Steffi Graf, but for the gallant loser as she waved in farewell...