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...subservience, competitiveness, narcissism are all at play, sometimes in conflict with one another. Inner conflicts occur, however, when subconscious primitive urges (read id) and value systems (read super ego) clash. A player about to realize a "forbidden desire"?from simply winning to smashing a ball at a female opponent???is a player in trouble. There are other divided and ultimately unstrung souls: the man who needs to feel great hostility in order to play hard, but whose conscience tells him that hostility is a bad thing. The woman?these days she is usually over 35?for whom beating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Sex& Tennis | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

...public side there is no doubt it has cost him votes." Mike Feldman, a former aide to John Kennedy, frequently plays tennis with Ted; he notices one small change: "Teddy bends over backward to be fair, is scrupulous about the calls, always giving the advantage to his opponent???and I haven't seen that in any other Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Non - Candidcacy of Edward Moore Kennedy | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

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