Word: doublesized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The tense exchanges that result run to repetitive caricature, like mother-in-law jokes. "I felt like walking off and saying, 'Go ahead. Play the whole court.' " "My husband's favorite words are 'Shut up and hit the ball.' " Frosty silences can be plangent too. Carl Rowan remembers that when...
The serpents, of course, plead extenuating circumstances. Some men hate mixed-doubles play and endure it only when caught. "You could play it in your tuxedo," says one. Why? Because, so the argument goes, women are slow. Another excuse is that most women had a deprived childhood?i.e., they did...
To be fair, it is true that many men have been caught in an agonizing shift in court customs largely created by the consciousness raising of Women's Liberation. "In the old days," Columbia's Dr. Hendin points out, "winning was not considered important in mixed doubles. It was expected...
There is still an unstated convention among mixed-doubles men that a male player is never beastly to the woman across the net. When it is broken, reports Ethel Kennedy's tennis pro Bob Graham, male rage is aroused. Says he: "I've never seen men actually come to blows...
"I tell myself. 'Don't be impatient. Treat her like anyone else.' But how can you treat your wife like anyone else? You say things to your wife that you would never say to another woman or to a man." The speaker is an even-tempered, otherwise happily married tennis...