Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ali stepped to the podium to another standing ovation, and motioning the crowd to be seated, said that the applause was not necessary. After thanking Taylor for his introduction, he said, "I'm not here to cop any pleas about losing the decision to Joe Frazier. You can't take nothing from Joe Frazier. He's not skillful, but he's awful strong...
...Ali indicated that "the draft thing and the black-white struggle and everything else that I'm involved in had to have some effect on the decision." But he promised to minimize such influences in the projected Frazier rematch. "Next time we'll try to fix it where there's no doubt; because he must...
Before turning to the topic of his lecture, Ali apologized for having missed his previous engagement, and went on to explain that he had almost been forced to cancel this appearance on account of another scheduling conflict. He was supposed to appear at an honorary dinner at a New Jersey high school. Not wanting "to say I couldn't make it again," he cancelled the New Jersey engagement after reimbursing the $1,500 that had been spent for dinner for 300. "But I learned one thing. I'll never make all these commitments on the same day. I'm good...
...Ali shifted gears smoothly in addressing himself to his topic, "The Purpose of Life," a subject chosen because of its universal relevance and treated it more as a dynamic than as a dialectic. The premise of his 35 minute lecture was that "every intelligent person comes to a stage in life... when he begins to question himself as to what purpose is there in life." For in his prior existence, "whatever a person's position or condition in life might be, whether this is a wise man or a foolish man, whether this is an educated man or an illiterate...
...only a small minority of people have discovered this vital sense of purpose. The rest are in a state of drift in which they whirl in a gyre of idle pleasures, mistaking each new sensation as the incarnation of true happiness. "But pleasure is just the shadow of happiness." Ali said, for it fails to incorporate "the very secret of life, the desire to achieve something...