Word: cups
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Early on, the Brazilians missed their superstar Pelé, who retired from international competition after helping to win the last World Cup. Despite occasional flashes of individual brilliance, the Brazilians barely squeaked into the semifinal round that began last week...
...West Germany relatively unknown. Though the Poles do not favor the star system, not even the most solid collective front could hide Grzegorz Lato, a great right forward who leads the team's bruising, tireless attack. Going into last weekend, the Polish team had the best record in Cup play...
...climax of World Cup competition approached, it seemed that the momentous events strained conventional reporting techniques of factual description and analysis. What was required instead was the imaginative reach of a fiction writer. TIME asked British Novelist Anthony Burgess, from whose eclectic mind have sprung such novels as A Clockwork Orange and Enderby, to comment on the Cup. Burgess watched some of the early action in Germany. Here are some of his thoughts...
...West Berlin, the restaurant of the Kempinski Hotel was serving a World Cup Cocktail-equal parts of curacao, vodka and orange juice-at 5½ Deutsche Mark a throw, or kick. On the Kudamm you could buy a record of the West German eleven trolling "Football is our life . . . King Football rules the world." Democratic Germany, as opposed to the German Democratic Republic, was taking the footballworld-mastership to her uncorseted and friendly bust. The spirit of internationalism was stretched so far that even selected chain gangs from the workers' paradise over the Wall were clanked into the corruptive...
More than anything, it is a temporary way out of news that is always bad. The World Cup this summer has made it easier to stomach inflation and the defections of the politicians. Whether it is right in terms of the potential!ties of the human soul for people to think more of the kicking around of a chunk of leather than of Hamlet and Bach's B Minor Mass is a question best not argued. The Fussballweltmeisterschaft has brought nations together in unlethal rivalry, and that cannot well be shrugged off as a lot of fussball about nothing...