Word: match
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bill Roberts--the senior manager of the Harvard tennis team who had never played in a varsity match, hell, never even come close--had his dream come true Sunday when coach Dave Fish paired him with Andy Chaikovsky at third doubles during the season finale at Cornell...
...only that, he won, fighting off seven match points and putting away an incredible overhead at four-all in a third-set tiebreaker to drive his teammates into a season-capping fit of delirium...
...match didn't mean a heckuva lot, really. Harvard had already won the team competition to secure a second-place league finish (behind Princeton) by the time Roberts and Chaikovsky took the court. By the time they left the court, though, the Crimson racquetmen were hugging and screaming as if they had just won the seventh game of the World Series...
...hopeful about? As it turns out, almost everything. Most simply, Thomas argues that the overwhelming tendency in nature is toward symbiosis, union, harmony. The post-Darwinian view of life as a constant, murderous struggle, Tennyson's personification of nature "red in tooth and claw," do not match the facts that Thomas has seen. Even what looks like random slaughter may be the opposite...
...CAST IS uniformly superb and convincingly British. Redford looks like he arrived straight from a rugby match at Wembley Stadium, while Hunt, his face set in an eternal mischievous grin, could be in Eton taunting the protagonist of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Stout and full-faced, Clemenson is the show's most consistently hysterics-inducing actor...