Word: auerbach
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Cynical sportswriters believed him when Pitino said it wasn't about the money; it was about the challenge and the tradition. Red Auerbach, the legendary coach, said he willingly gave up his title as president because "Rick has been my choice all the way down the line--I never dreamed we could get him." And Celtic Hall of Famer John Havlicek, resplendent in a green blazer, proclaimed, "This is a great day in the history of this great franchise." The love-in was so overwhelming that people wouldn't have been terribly surprised if the Celtics had announced they were...
...then again, didn't we all think about it? Larry Bird, coming back and turning into the second greatest coach in basketball history--behind Red Auerbach of course--and returning the Celtics to the glory of the past. I guess it could still happen...
Neither the Fussell nor the concluding work, Richard Strauss's "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks," matched the excellence of the Rimsky-Korsakov. Still, the imperfections of the orchestra's performance of the symphonic poem were technical, not conceptual. As Brent Auerbach '97 notes in the program, the piece often suggests the 14th-century folk hero Till "thumbing his nose" at the scholastic world and causing general mischief, two activities every Harvard student should have mastered by now. The oftenmuddy winds therefore did no permanent damage to the spirit of the music, and were canceled out (sometimes literally) by especially fine...
...long-standing Celtic fan (I stayed up late at night while in grade school to watch the Celts beat the Lakers in the late fifties and early sixties), I enjoyed reading your article on the demise of the Cs. However, Auerbach is not the culprit. He is the victim...
...reality is that Red Auerbach took them there...