When "The Vital Center" was reprinted, in 1987, he said that he had abandoned "the mystical theory of totalitarianism popularized by George Orwell and Hannah Arendt.... Totalitarian states, far from representing, as I thought in 1949, a change of phase in social organization, are hardly more than Tartar courts equipped with modern technology".
For years, the program failed to turn out top players, but Bellis has embraced the center, with its state-of-the-art courts equipped with PlaySight technology, which allows players and their coaches to review video and data of a training session in progress, instantly, at a courtside kiosk.
There are three 15-minute recesses, with more than 100 children at a time packed into a fenced-in basketball court equipped with nothing more than a pair of netless hoops.
An out-of-the-way nook of the state court building, equipped with three small bedrooms marked "prosecutor", "defender" and "judge", serves as a nocturnal court.
They faced the court system equipped with what was learned through the case of Gail's son.
Murderball, as it was originally called, is a contact sport played on a basketball court by rival teams equipped with armored wheelchairs.
"I just felt that being on a show court, I felt like there were a lot of people, not only me, many want to have evidence of where the ball landed," Mirnyi said after the match, citing the increased presence of Hawk-Eye at Indian Wells as a reason he assumed Show Court 2 would be equipped with it as well.
Mahopac lacks a public swimming pool, but residents may swim at Long Pond beach at Sycamore Park, a 32-acre recreation area equipped with tennis courts, ball fields and playgrounds.
The airparks range in size from just a few people sharing a grass strip to sprawling developments with thousands of homes equipped with tennis courts, swimming pools and spas.
The classroom, a former diner at 231 Court Street (Warren Street), is equipped with stainless steel counters and professional stoves.
He had seen the beach volleyball court, toured the game room equipped with billiards, Ping-Pong and air hockey tables, and learned with delight of the Friday pool parties with a D.J., free food and snow cones, spiked with rum for those of age.
