ABSTRACT
This chapter argues with an anecdote about an inmate of Dart-moor Prison in the ancient days of 1958, and with excerpts from the memoirs of a brilliant black intellectual and activist who refused to betray his white flannel origins, because both men held on to a set of values which help to clarify our own. Ever since visit to Dartmoor Prison in 1958, have seen civility in America slowly but steadily decline, especially after President Kennedy's shocking assassination in 1963. The only Americans to win our National Championship in that decade were Connors and John McEnroe, who last won it in 1984. In the meantime, the new National Tennis Center, at Flushing Mead-ow, Long Island, held its first US Compared to the charm of Roland Garros, in Paris, or the dignity of Wimbledon, Flushing Meadow was, and still is, a noisy, tasteless place, set in positively uncivil surroundings.
