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...victory. But as for the championship of the world, Frazier never had a chance. Bundini Brown, Ali's assistant trainer and confidant, has said, "The world is a black shirt with a few white buttons." For outside of some of the board rooms, the veterans'lodges and the other button-down watering holes on the button of white America, Muhammad Ali a/k/a Cassius Clay a/k/a HIM is still the Greatest...
...those who live in rural areas. So many Americans have already achieved the suburban goal that suburbia itself has undergone a mutation. Inevitably, the new migrants have undone the cliché image of an affluent. WASPish. Republican hotbed of wife swappers. In the suburban myth, all men are button-down commuters, swilling one martini too many in the bar car of the 5:32. Frustrated women spend their days driving from station to school to supermarket to bridge club. The kids are spoiled and confused. Families move regularly, as Daddy is transferred or climbs the corporate ladder...
...personality change? A weekend encounter group? An inspired public relations man? What happened was Nixonian Washington, which with its button-down, square-cut, early-to-bed monochrome, tends to make any spot of color look bigger and brighter. But then too, Washington under any Administration has always had a special electricity for women?a current of excitement that brings out previously unrecognized or suppressed qualities...
...Discourage them from adopting the affectations of the young. Tell them that parents in button-down shirts are beautiful, but that an old man in bell-bottoms looks ridiculous...
...wife-swap clubs in California." With Yeatsian gloom, he adds: "It breeds odd personalities, too: children who at twelve are no longer childlike; adults who at 50 are children of twelve. There are anarchists who, beneath their dirty denim shirts, are outrageous conformists, and conformists who, beneath their button-down collars, are outrageous anarchists. There are married priests and atheist ministers and Jewish Zen Buddhists. We have pop . . . and op ... and art cinetique . . . There are Playboy Clubs and homosexual movie theaters . . . amphetamines and tranquilizers . . . anger, affluence and oblivion. Much oblivion...