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...were classic "tennis parents"--his mother, a small birdlike woman with platinum hair piled high, accompanied him everywhere on tour, watching his every match, fretting over every bad call, bugging officials, scouting out the games of other players. She waited by each court he played on ready with a towel or clean shirt, advice or encouragement, as if afraid her Johnny would be gypped. But the anxiety with which she so jealously supervised the progress of her son went deeper than this--it was as if she could capture through his success a dream that had eluded...
...cried. A half hour later Connors, high on his success, is surrounded in the pressroom. The Stockton family, minus Mr., waits for Dickie on the clubhouse porch, looking out over the grass now singed dusky by the sun's going down. He barely acknowledges them as he trudges by, towel draped around his neck for a shower. How do you greet a beaten Stockton when all the customary reassurances, the buck ups, the next times, the good fights, come as so much rubbing in of failure...
Small Bed. Life at the school is spartan. Ordinarily five cadres share a small concrete-floored room. Each person has a small bed and a towel, which hangs from a clothesline stretched across the ceiling. The only decorations are the regulations and daily schedule pasted to the wall. There is a bookcase made from wooden boxes filled with Marx, Lenin and the collected works of Mao. A small table in the middle of the room serves as the study center...
...LIKE TO forget that beneath the jacket of this book the initials "PR" are emblazoned into the cover, like a Brooks Brothers bathrobe, or a towel set. I would like to not care who Philip Roth is, whether or not he has earned the license to write a novel so apparently decadent and outrageous, or whether this is the appropriate follow-up to a story about a gargantuan sci-fi mammary gland. The Great American Novel is certainly utterly bereft of Greatness, but it is great in the way that Tony the Tiger intones the word...
...Graduate Student and Teaching Fellow Union threw in the towel this week, ending almost three months of sporadic opposition to the graduate school's Kraus plan for financial aid to students...