Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once was. Racism and radical politics have besieged its encrusted prerogatives and cherished prejudices. Many policemen respond to the situation by joining Alamo, an unofficial organization dedicated to superpatriotism and the myth of the white man's burden. Alamos take solemn loyalty oaths and watch slides of the Boxer Rebellion. One member pines for the time when "Watts was the plural of a unit of electrical power" and "Detroit was a baseball team." For security reasons, all assume code names, such as MacArthur (Douglas), Crockett (Davy), Wayne (John) and Roosevelt (Theodore). History and Hollywood are given equal credibility ratings...
...many rejected C.O.s are now likely to reapply for exemption. The decision may also help deposed Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali, who is fighting a five-year sentence for refusing induction on the ground that he is a Black Muslim minister. One of Ali's lawyers claims that the boxer's case has a better chance before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit "now that theology has been taken...
...tribute to Rodgers and Hart, complete with humming chicks in the back ground, Blue Moon is schmaltzy but fun: a lighthearted and amusing wave at an era that preceded Dylan's birth. Even better are his versions of Paul Simon's The Boxer and Gordon Light-foot's Early Mornin' Rain, the one just a shade more punchy than the original, the other just a shade more dawn-lit. Best of the borrowed songs, though, are his soft-slippered strolls through the California Gold Rush song Days of '49 and the woodsmoky American folk song...
...debate between those who regard his opponents as so many patsies and those who see him as "a Titan," "a Hercules," a larger-than-life hero who is miraculously real. Intensifying the "hurricanes of polemic," as one sportswriter puts it, is Urtain's utter lack of finesse as a boxer. He is as unpolished as the stones he used to lift, a slugger who at every outing shows a pervasive ignorance of his trade's finer points. Basically, he is a swarming, dervish-like flailer who leaves ringside observers arguing about which was the actual knockout punch...
...N.A.A.C.P., warns that blacks and unions "are on a collision course." Demonstrations last summer in Chicago, Pittsburgh and Seattle showed what happens when they collide. In Pittsburgh, 40 people were injured in clashes between police and black and white demonstrators. At one site Nate Smith, a former professional boxer and at that time head of a self-help organization called Operation Dig, dragged a superintendent to the edge of a fifth-floor framework and told him, as Ebony magazine reported, "Look, m.f., if you don't hire my men, I'm gonna drop you." The superintendent hired eleven...