Word: hatting
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...cards, since he hadn't quite mastered his new leg, but over the years, I'd often seen him whacking tennis balls around the Vineyard Haven yacht club courts. Other players might be dressed in stuffy new whites, but Art, an utterly unpretentious man, favored a ratty old hat and baggy shorts that looked as if they might drop to his ankles at any moment...
...course will angrily protest, and ask if I really think that professional sports loyalties are the most perfect expressions of one’s heritage. Some will ask if I really think that swapping a Phillies, or any other team’s, cap for a Red Sox hat is a crime comparable to treason. Do I really think this way? No, of course not. But the readiness of many Harvard students to completely jettison their past identity and swap it wholesale for a Boston one speaks to issues far more serious than the lack of McNabb jerseys or renditions...
...jury room to learn whether I would be required to serve, I picked up a discarded copy of the recently redesigned, somewhat smaller Wall Street Journal. The bible of high-dollar Babbitry is not something I usually read. What I wanted to do was try to make a hat out of it. I wondered whether the Journal's narrower new page is deficient in the same way as the similarly trimmed Atlanta Journal-Constitution's. For generations, the men who print the J-Cwould fold a sheet of it into a hat that kept ink out of their hair...
...want to be making a paper hat in a jury pool, so I read the WSJ. The new format was inviting. I learned that the dollar needs to get weaker so it won't suddenly collapse and that there is such a thing as investing in orange juice futures. Then we were called up to the courtroom. A not-guilty-looking young woman stood accused of selling cocaine. The law was going to have a hard time convincing me to send that little girl up the river...
...supposed to take that personally, but you can't help wondering what sticks out about you. I was sniffing quite a bit, but that can only have looked like what it was: sinus-related. I believe the prosecutors saw me as too kindly. If I'd been wearing a hat made out of the Wall Street Journal, I might have fooled them...