Word: alie
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Last Thursday night, Muhammad Ali, minister of the Lost Found Nation of Islam in North American and heavy-weight fighter, spoke at Boston University's Sargent Gym at the invitation of B.U.'s Martin Luther King, Jr. Afre-American Center in conjunction with the University's Distinguished Lecture Series. Ali, who has made 22 college lectures since the so-called "Fight of the Century," was scheduled to appear the previous Thursday; however, negotiations for a fight with basketbaill player Wilt Chamberlain had prevented him from making the appearance. Consequently, the crowd of 800, roughly half black, half white...
...minutes before the announced 8 p.m. starting time of the lecture, the crowd was informed that Ali would not appear until 8:30. Something was mentioned about an airline delay. Such an explanation might have been easily accepted were some other figure, a Marcuse or a Galbraith, to be late; but Ali, like so many other black people of prominence, has been so immersed in an atmosphere of violent ephemerality that the explanation seemed an awkward cover-up of shadier dealings. Someone in the crowd said, "Maybe the pigs have got him won't let him show...
Nonetheless, the crowd settled back, expecting a half hour wait. However, at about five past eight, Ali, dressed in a thin-striped, vested, grey suit and a sky-blue tie, with his wife, Belinda, and a small entourage of B.U. officials, entered the gym. After a moment of collective disbelief, the crowd broke into an applause which quickly became a standing ovation. As if following some ancient ritual of court. Ali, whose style of movement outside the ring is that same electric grace of the floating butterfly with the sting of a bee, only slower, so that...
...ALI was introduced by Richie Taylor, a B.U. student and the school's first Rhodes Scholar who said, "To know that Muhammad Ali is only a boxer is not to know him at all, for the man before us tonight represents more than physical perfection. He embodies all the mental and cultural strength of all people of color that exist in the world." Taylor concluded by alluding to Huey Newton's statement that "it's not imperative that he [Ali] win the fight in the ring, but that he continue to win the fight in the universe...
...every rooftop, Pakistan's green-and-white flags hang limply in the steamy stillness. "We all know that Pakistan is finished," said one Bengali, "but we hope the flags will keep the soldiers away." As another form of insurance, portraits of Pakistan's late founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah, and even the current President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan, were displayed prominently. But there was no mistaking the fact that the East Pakistanis viewed the army's occupation of Dacca as a setback and not a surrender. "We will neither forgive nor forget," said one Bengali. On learning that...