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Dumas was not alone in his fury. The French political journals, center and right, ravaged Courbet for years, and beside their vilifications the attacks on impressionism and cubism were mere Ping Pong. Such vehemence only rises from the conviction that art changes life: that painting has a public role...
Remember China's Ping Pong diplomacy? Its chief ambassador was Chuang Tse-tung, the three-time world table tennis champion (1961, 1963 and 1965) who is widely acknowledged to be one of the top players of all time. Chuang was dispatched with a Chinese team to the U.S. in 1972, as well as to Japan, Thailand and Malaysia, for the highly publicized matches that signaled Peking's desire to broaden its international ties...
Such is the travelogue romanticism that has dominated much Western reporting from China since the Ping Pong diplomacy days of 1972, when large numbers of visitors were admitted for the first time since the Communist takeover in 1949. Now, however, some revisionism is in vogue. In the past year such ideologically diverse American publications as Commentary (more and more conservative) and the New York Review of Books (still insistently liberal) have run pieces critical of conditions in China. The occasional U.S. journalist allowed into the country is more discerning than before about what he sees, thanks to a growing body...
When B.F.Skinner wants to write, he explained to students at a dinner several years ago, he manipulates his personal environment just as he does the environment of the pigeons that he wants to play ping-pong. He adjusts temperature and humidity in the writing room to optimal levels. He dangles some reward--a meal, for instance--in front of himself and lets himself eat only when his allotted writing stint is completed. The writing of a Skinner work is the culmination of years of behavioral preparation. Skinner takes copious notes on many of his thoughts and actions and then files...
They got to Logan on time but their chartered Air New England plane didn't. They sat in a boring terminal for nearly three hours and watched George Ford and Boyce Greer play a makeshift game of ping pong, Ford's suitcase serving as the net. The ball was imaginary, but it didn't matter. They didn't score...