Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the Kleinfelder gang is dribbling through Worcester, Stephanie Walsh, Paula Newman and their ice-cream-eating-ulcer-makers (a.k.a. the Harvard Women's swim team, a.k.a. the Radcliffe Swimmers) will square-off against Dartmouth Saturday afternoon...
Fayer may have difficulty this weekend though, as she will be unable to practice for the rest of this week because of an injury she received while swimming. (Rumor reports that she cut herself on the curb while swimming through the rapids on flooded Shepard Street.) But she is expected to swim on Saturday...
...without spending a lot of money becomes acute. Most winter sports in this part of the world require a raid on operating capital, and there is no way around that: you want to skate, you gotta have skates; you want to ski, you gotta have skis; you want to swim, you gotta have a pool; and on it goes. (All of which is not to mention the financial and political problems involved in those ever-popular jaunts to Third World countries near the Equator...
...foremost all those who wish to compete at the intercollegiate level (and have the necessary ability), secondly all those who wish to compete at an organized intramural level, and leave to the bottom of the ladder all those who would like to be able to go for an occasional swim or play a pick-up game of basketball...
...over them on a self-important little ship piloted by proud matrons going nowhere with a great show of dignity, dragging the water for warmth with elegant fishnets. We are the crew, and now and then we jump over the side, but only to repair the nets, seldom to swim. Our boat belongs to a fleet which still fancies it controls the ocean, but our nets are the old liberal language and theories, which do not catch what we need now to grow; they certainly don't help us to recognize a pervasive ruin which has come quietly down upon...