Word: lockers
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Perhaps "culture" is the wrong word to describe what goes on. Perhaps not even Bertolt Brecht, who knew the middle class hates to be reminded that its comfortable life is political, could make it interesting. It is a land characterized by the atmosphere of a San Clemente golf club locker room; golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism. It is a land of Jack Daniels and Vietnamese maids, of luxurious home sprinkler systems, of helicopters which hover over the city to catch purse snatchers making their...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.--In the giddy clamor of the Harvard locker room after Saturday's 41-7 rout of Brown, one idea lingered uneasily on many a mind...
...Crimson seems to be hitting its stride coming into the season's final three games. But noble as Saturday's effort was, it probably will not be enough to return Harvard to the Ivy race. And that fact was not lost on the celebrating throng here in the Harvard locker room Saturday...
Later the networks brought the minicam to the locker room. Athletes with enviable physiques were suddenly "up close and personal." They proved neither as intimidating nor as unmatchable as they seemed from a distance. If petulant Jimmy Connors could do it, playing tennis had possibilities for Everyman. In 1972 television struck another blow for fitness when Frank Shorter, the first American to win the Olympic marathon in recent times, lunged across the finish line in Munich's Olympic Stadium and into 13,540,000 American households. The images wavering on the color tube informed viewers that there were better...
Rarely is there the aura of the locker room, and the volume's only sense of life comes when the players speak, all too rarely, in their own voices. Between the testimonies are pages of ponderous speculations and familiar psychological and political theorizing. "Many of the blacks had never seen anything like it [Portland] before-the mountains, the forests, the river-they had heard of land like this but it always seemed to be something that would belong to white people." The book's one insight is into the character of Bill Walton. He casts an emotional shadow...