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...Battle of the Behemoths, Mark Ferguson and Steve Hall, both of Quincy, grunted and groaned with Ferguson taking the unlimited crown, while Jaimie "Brute Force" Kardon of Dunster out-pointed Leverett's Jim Dougherty in the 191 finale...
...Kardon isn't worried. "In four years at Harvard, I've learned that the only way to get anywhere is to muscle your way through. Brute force will decide, brains don't count," he said...
...modest as Peter Jackson or as controllable as Joe Louis, could have gained the acceptance or even the affection of white American fight fans. He would have been praised as a model man, as a credit to his race, but still would have been only a lucky black brute whose success the system benevolently tolerated. Nor was it merely because of his affairs with white women that Johnson was prosecuted and persecuted. Other black fighters had been and were similarly entangled, but had genuflected to the system by keeping their affairs clandestine. The system did not condone their activities...
...never played basketball, mainly because I was such a brute (I couldn't shoot) so I played football instead. The coach made me a split end, because, as I thought. I was fast. But when we had the big pep rally to start the season off, he explained to the fans why he put me out there by myself...
...energy from the shattering, obliterating volume of electrically amplified music, so awesomely loud it made pant legs flap and ears go numb for days. This volume, so enormous it was more movement than sound, amounted to a new form of violence, and when it coupled with the anarchic, brute-sexual rhythm and lyrics of rock-'n'-roll music, it produced a mass catharsis...