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...with less than three minutes left in the game, MacDonald and Young decided to play some pingpong hockey. MacDonald to Young to MacDonald. Red light, hat trick, double-figure victory...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: A Bedtime Story With Harvard as Hero | 11/29/1988 | See Source »

During Reagan's speech a couple in the Dudley Common Room left the lounge sofa to play a game of pingpong...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: A Tragedy for All | 1/30/1986 | See Source »

...Michael Huddleston) is the chubby, balding Jewish son of an undertaker who inherits the business; and Georgia (Jodi Thelen), a vivacious, lusty young debauchka who drives all three boys to be forever singing "Georgia in My Mind." Georgia is supposed to be dynamic--she has more personality than a pingpong bail has bounces--spewing endless tripe about her heroine Indoor Duncan, her first grey hair, her boundless love, and youth. Instead of responding to each other, the characters make embarrassing should-baring speeches. We care and know so little about them that they seem to be reading for a screen...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: The Sixties Reinvented | 2/4/1982 | See Source »

...addition to these official facilities, there are other less formal places to pursue one's athletic interests. Harvard Yard and the Charles River banks are fine for frisbee, touch football, and suntanning. The Freshman Union is the mecca for pingpong, pool, and that most addictive and time wasting of all endeavors, pinball...

Author: By Andrew P. Quigley, | Title: Harvard Sports: Look-ins and Zig-outs | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...good sense but rather flat drama. What redeems the evening is McCowen's acting. He has a feel for the role that is as sensitive as a safecracker's fingertips. At one moment he is the bemused absent-minded professor, at another the twinkling champion of verbal pingpong, and at still another, an anguished human with a parched heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Verbal Pingpong | 3/29/1971 | See Source »

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