Word: squashings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...argued by squash-ites that their game is more demanding, that the constitution is tested and the will bent to its limits by the exertions of the sport. But how frivolously these arguments are batted about by effete participants who have never witnessed, let alone competed, in a handball contest...
...much more familiar to the closeted squash-fans is the image of bespectacled and upwardly-mobile contestants, cavalierly brushing their brows of a trace of perspiration, exiting separately and continuing on, no doubt, to sedentary careers as bankers and multinational corporation moguls...
Life is far from easy for handball players at Harvard. While this University boasts a squash team, its handball players have to skulk around at odd hours, playing on courts designed for the racqueted game. The psychological effects of this are not to be underestimated; how much of the present malaise in which our student body is glumly steeped can be attributed to the frustration of such healthy, sanguine and natural passions as the thrum-thrum-thrum of hand on ball, ball off wall...
...turned to it as an experience of epiphany. In repeated references in the Bible and in ancient Greek myth, handball appears as a rooting, elemental experience, the ultimate symbol of man's ties to the soil (the first handballs were, of course, balls of mud) from which he sprang. Squash, we might...
...University, we say: look for us not in the polished alabaster cubicles that are the foundation of its buildings, nor in the cleanly-swept emporiums of squash and tennis that line its square. Our destiny carries us onward, in the words of the poet, towards a future that embraces the past...