Word: fraziers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Walt Frazier took it easy against the Bullets last year, but he'll have his hands full with Phil Chenier, who has been averaging over 20 points per game. And Dave DeBusschere will have a headache trying to cover either Elvin Hayes or Wes Unseld who is back after a series of injuries...
...Frazier wastes no sympathy on what he might call the Great Sartorially Unwashed: those who wear double-knit suits off the rack and monograms, which he regards as "manifestations of insecurity." He devoted an entire column recently to upbraiding a Los Angeles physician who had tried to crash Boston's proper Ritz bar in a Cardin turtleneck. A city councilor, Albert ("Dapper") O'Neil, has filed suit against him for $1 million because of Frazier's gibes at the crease in O'Neil's trousers...
...Frazier, who went on from his lace-curtain upbringing to acquire a Harvard degree and Brahmin persona, views himself as a romantic in mourning for his era's lost grace and style. The common man (H.L. Mencken's Boobus americanus) is to Frazier the root of the new Philistinism-"ignorant, ill-clad, ill-spoken...
...Frazier's acid snobbery occasionally backfires. He angered early employers at such papers as Boston's Record American ("The readers all moved their lips when they read, but then so did the editors"). His views do not exactly coincide with those of the liberal Globe either. In 1971, after Frazier savaged the TV performance of five earnest young Boston reporters, attacking them mainly for looking tacky on camera, Editor Tom Winship sacked him. Frazier promptly hired a small plane to fly over a jammed local football stadium trailing a banner: BRING BACK GEORGE FRAZIER. He was soon rehired...
...Despite Frazier's outrageous excesses, he is an original whose following keeps coming back for more. "The whole trouble with this era," muses Frazier, "is that there is very little eccentricity. An age is great in art and every other way in proportion to the eccentrics who thrive in that time." What other eccentric would confound his readers by observing the Red Sox's winning baseball opener in Latin...