Word: ping-pong
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Each class sections had about fifty students. We stood in the cafeteria because it had no chairs and the auditorium had only camp stools. The soccer field was ringed with a belt of basketball courts; there were more ping-pong tables than bathrooms. We had no central heat, of course, and since there was always competition between classes to save coal, we frequently went the whole winter without our little stoves; the ink would out by late afternoon...
...there was little to set one home apart from another. Much more common was a group outing to a nearby park or to the movies (20 cents for the most expensive seats). Sports played a very important role, and the school grounds were alive with activity from soccer to ping-pong until night fall. No nightlife existed, and even if it had, nobody would have been able to take time away from the heavy homework load...
Plywood, that prosaic sandwich of wood and glue, was long a low-prestige commodity used chiefly in such things as panel doors, ping-pong tables and bureau-drawer bottoms. No longer. Glamorized almost beyond recognition, it has taken on fancy surfaces, been merged with other materials and found its way into such diverse places as giant freeway signs, the stands for Lyndon Johnson's Inauguration and the outside walls of a 24-story building in San Francisco. Demand for plywood has doubled in the past seven years, and this year the $1 billion industry expects to sell a record...
...decorative appeal of Louis' and Noland's work, especially for European critics, is not hard to understand. Compared to the beer cans, taxidermic delights, and other hairy intrusions of other new art, their art is clean, almost scrubbed raw. Without resorting to optical ping-pong, they soak pure peacock color into huge, unprimed, raw canvas. With all the flamboyant color that today's plastic paints can provide, their works please some as wall hangings, avant-garde tapestries aglow with unconventional color combinations and quite uncomplicated by symbolism...
...gets up and walks to his desk, not wearily. In thinking thesis his mind is as alert as when stung by coffee; but he needs no caffeine late at night trying to sleep; early in the ayem his nerves play ping-pong with his psyche...