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Newcombe's two victories over Connors came on grass, a fast surface suited to his serve-and-volley power game. The Las Vegas match will be on a slower synthetic surface, but Newcombe seems too strong to be seriously handicapped by a dull court. When he is pent up, Newcombe lets go with the toughest serve in tennis, and no one has a more murderous volley...
...spend on new equipment and expanded facilities. Companies were eager to buy because they expected the slowdown to be short and shallow, and as recently as last month the backlog of orders for capital goods still stood at a healthy total of $75.5 billion. Those orders and the pent-up corporate demand that they represent have served as a welcome moderating influence on the depth and duration of the recession...
...which students could externalize their anxieties. Today, student activism lies dormant as the number of clubbies grows, along with the resurrection of Harvard's only fraternity house, which died in 1969. In a sense, the undergraduate psyche has been driven back to where it was in the early '60s--pent up and anxious. As the 1972-73 UHS annual report observed...
...audience and he comes alive: his lids shoot up like window blinds letting the sun in, and his mustache dances expressively around his face. He cannot even stay quiet during breaks in the taping of his show. During a production delay, Freddie entertained the audience, with a burst of pent-up one-liners. "This is a minority show," he announced. "The next minority to get its own show will probably be the Eskimos-Let's Make a Seal." Then he laid into the Chinese: "I'm really afraid of them. Take this Kung Fu, for example. They...
SENNETT AND COBB are far more ambitious. They recognize that the mechanisms of class may sometimes, fail to hold workers in--they treat the question of revolt and the "intensity of pent-up feeling" which revolt releases--but they do not consider the hard living families who give up on middle-class dreams and retreat from society rather than attack it. Yet their book goes far beyond other books based on interviews in that they attempt to create a comprehensive modern theory of class structure as it holds for the majority of people. Drawing together thoughts from philosophers and modern...