Word: gaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hated to sink this much money into a garage at this stage of the game," Mrs. Bunting said. "If the merger comes it may be more essential to put money into women's education or somewhere else," she said...
...senior at University High School in West Los Angeles. Levin performed well enough on California's cement courts to earn a ranking among the top ten junior players in the state. He had developed a fine serve-and-volley game, strengthened it with a strong forehand slam, and put it to good use on the hard, quick cement courts...
...when he brought his game to Harvard, he encountered trouble. Most Eastern colleges play on clay courts, and the only comparable composition at Harvard was the Palmer Dixon indoor courts which the squad used only in bad weather...
...used to pray for rain," says Levin. "The California courts were so fast that all you really needed was a good serve and volley to be a decent player. The clay courts slowed the game down considerably, so there was an element of craftiness that I hadn't needed before...
...like a colossal term paper, trying to get started and finding ever-fresh devices for procrastination. Like Mailer at the conventions he casts about rather self-consciously for figures to interview (Mark Rudd, Dean Deane, the station manager of WABC) and events to experience and record (a Red Sox game, a McCarthy rally). This processor for filling out the book does not work out nearly so badly as one would expect, though. The instant success that followed Kunen's first appearance in New York magazine did not spoil his cruelly observant eye. Nor does frequent borrowing from Mailer and Salinger...