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...Sevenoaks workshop, 12-year-old Daniel "demanded to make a Ping-Pong table, which to their credit they let me do. All my life's ambition went into this table. I took it home; we used it for years." That first experience working with wood "was the start of what became one of my greatest abiding loves...
...need humor and whimsy, and if it gets funded, just remember: so did the Harvard-Radcliffe Ping Pong Club. Theodore K. Gideonse '96 Editor, HQ Magazine
Walton stresses that WAC's movement may be seen as a first step by women with concerns about other types of elitism in the final club selection process. "I don't think this is about us wanting to play in beer pong tournaments. It's about wanting the choice to join," Walton said...
...what worlds there are to explore! Though some games are, in one exhibitor's phrase, "obsolete by the time we buy them," and though the images may be at the Pong or Space Invaders stage of sophistication, they do give you the sense of being out there, weightless and heedless, in that mysterious space between your ears...
Grownups, as a rule, don't get it. Which may be why the video-game craze has been seen by most adults -- including the captains of the entertainment industry -- as a dead end. For 20 years they have watched the advent of Pong and Pac-man, the rise and fall of Atari, the arrival of the Japanese, and have dismissed videogaming as a temporary detour far removed from the mainstream of modern American culture -- which is to say, movies and prime-time television...