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With two team members now missing--Sands and Beren--the second doubles pair played first. Scott, who was to have paired with Sands in first doubles, played with Beckman, and yesterday's fifth and sixth seeds, Bruce Diker and Sy Fountaine, played in third doubles. Harvard lost the third doubles contest, 6-2, 4-6, 1-6. "We were rolling," Diker said. "But each of us made a couple of errors, and then everything shifted. It all depends on concentration...
...years as a prison chaplain, I have encountered a number of Sy Johnsons who feel they are chronic victims, abused and misused. One of the alienating choices the Sy Johnsons repeatedly make is to sustain themselves with anger, bitterness and inner turmoil. In their distorted view, these intense and destructive emotions are the glue that holds their fragmented lives together. Such individuals are totally threatened, even panicked, at the suggestion of giving up their anger...
Perpetual time-doers like Sy Johnson have created a self-image as a loser. They see themselves as inferior, inept, unworthy and unlovable...
What disturbs anyone looking at Sy, however, is not his differences from the world but his obvious membership in it. In a sense a criminal is merely a man of extremes, someone who robs gas stations rather than the dignity of a colleague, or who terrorizes with a gun rather than a bullying personality, or who murders in fact instead of with gossip. Perhaps this is why Sy feels low, but not ignoble; the laws he breaks are on the books. Yet his internal torment is that of anyone who recognizes his own guilt and self-hate, who sees...
...Sy had a dream while taking a nap the other day. It was about "a big, gigantic bird without feathers, and he came into my cell and got lodged under my cot. And I'm wondering in my dream whether to free this monster or scream for help." The problem struck him funny. He did not recognize the beast. -By Roger Rosenblatt