Word: pong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This is a big part of my life," was how James McGill '72 described the Adams House Ping-Pong Tournament. McGill, a self-acknowledged dark horse who hasn't played a single game all year, is currently sweeping through the tournament...
...Miller, "created and produced" by Bradley Smith. Miller claims that his cocktail table book is designed to strip his life's saga of its literary pretensions--but what is he without his artistic fantasies? Given the testimony of the book's photographs, a wizened old doll, a Zen ping pong player with a drooping paddle...
...symbol of something Smith's readers need, the rebel artist and the great sexual emancipator. But the photographs reveal him gliding into dotage, the dried up version of the former volcano. Smith's a pictures reach a crescendo of inanity with a shot of Miller playing ping pong with a naked Playmate...
...Jargon. The text of the communique will doubtless be endlessly dissected in the days and weeks to come. Inevitably, and perhaps unjustly, strenuous efforts will be made to score it like a Ping Pong match, in a determined attempt to assert who came out ahead. Some will find the U.S. acceptance of the jargon of the Bandung Conference on peaceful coexistence distasteful. On the other hand. China assented to the proposition that "seeking hegemony in the Asian-Pacific region" is conduct unbecoming a well-behaved neighbor, a precept several of its neighbors would dearly love to see put into practice...
Inevitably, the readers tended to get stories about the low rents in Peking, the prevalence of bicycles, or the fact that stores were peddling pastel-colored Ping Pong balls. There was also copy about the comfortable press quarters at the Hotel of Nationalities where guests were supplied with pots of glue-because Chinese stamps, though colorful, are stickless. When word went round that a number of press visas might be extended well beyond the presidential visit, correspondents were quick to register their eagerness to stay...