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This Spring, Get the Balls Rolling In this era of social distancing, lawn games like croquet, badminton and horseshoes offer a great way to spend some time outside. Enjoying a game of croquet at the Merry Hill Lodge in Cresko, Pa., in 1956.Credit.Robert Walker/The New York Times May 1, 2021 A year ago, when shelves dedicated to toilet paper and baking yeast yawned empty and respirator masks and hand sanitizer were sold out seemingly everywhere, shoppers in England encountered another shortage: croquet sets.But supplies have rebounded, and as leisure seekers everywhere should recognize, croquet and related lawn games played outdoors and at a convenient distance are reasonably safe alternatives to team sports or going to the gym. ....
THAT boxing is a sport that sits at odds with pre-eminent enlightenment cultural values rooted in a revulsion of violence or at least violence other than that sanctioned by the state in service to the state is a contradiction that many writers and public intellectuals have pondered with varying degrees of success through the years. None has been more convincing in unravelling this contradiction than Joyce Carol Oates. In her classic work, On Boxing, she makes the point that while “Spectators at public games derive much of their pleasure from reliving the communal emotions of childhood, spectators at boxing matches relive the murderous infancy of the race.” ....