Premise: The Nation 's Katha Pollitt takes Putnam's very example, the shift from league bowling to ad hoc bowling, and suggests that [that] story could be told as one of happy progress from a drink-sodden night of spouse-avoidance with the same old faces from work to temperate and spontaneous fun with one's intimate friends and family.

Hypothesis: Putnam took the example of changing the tone of the story from Katha Pollitt.
Relation: contradiction