Word: tennised
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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How can anyone get excited about hitting a fuzzy yellow ball? Isn't it a strange affair for a group of six young men to travel around from college to college trying to hit these yellow fuzzies up over a nylon fish net and drop them back into a chalked...
No. I think tennis is more than just a game, although it has often been tough for me to explain to others exactly what makes it so. First, tennis, like any sport, dictates that life continues, but only within a narrowly prescribed set of rules. It neatly removes most ambiguities...
Tennis, like sports in general, allows us a brief chance to focus our energies completely. We can single-mindedly commit our time and our energies. In addition, tennis offers a rare chance to manipulate our lens-like perspectives. It allows us to narrowly focus our perspectives to the level of...
Yet, because there exists this larger context, one shouldn't underestimate the importance of tennis. Every activity in each of our lives, as well as our lives themselves, shares a similar subservience to the larger scope. The larger perspective, when opened full tilt, can reduce anything to triviality.
So, if you call tennis only a game--a part of a larger context--remember that in a sense our activities and our lives are games, as well. And if you call tennis a game because its rules are clearer and its inequities and ambiguities have been removed, realize that...