Word: luck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first official visit to the Middle East, he knew full well that the problems of the area were, as he put it, "complex and very difficult." At the very least, though, he thought that he knew the lay of the land and the antagonists' basic positions. No such luck. Halfway through his five-capital tour last week, Waldheim found that the alignments were shifting like desert sands, and that certain features on the map were being altered...
...fortunate zany defies a quick answer. He is probably a bit of both. For a guy who would not know Gloria Steinem if she tap-danced across his chest in spike heels, he has gone a long way with sexism. But a true hustler does not depend on luck, and Riggs was awfully lucky to fall into the right game at the right time. Five years ago these superheated matches could not have happened, and five years from now they would not mean anything. But Riggs, properly overaged and frivolous, came along at the confluence of two phenomena: the rise...
...Bobby agrees. "None of the gambling I do is really hustling," he says. "A hustle implies that the result is known in advance, that you set it up. But I don't do that; if it involves games of skill, I'll take just about anything. When luck is involved I'm more cautious; I never bet on horses, and I don't like to shoot craps. What I live for is the matching of wits, the game...
...have to know what the people in charge here expect you to be. They expect you to be passive, but their word for it is "active." They'll give you pleasant things to do and you'll spend a lot of time doing them and, with a little luck, you'll convince yourself you wanted to do them, maybe even that you thought of them. You'll be 40 years old when you graduate. And you may have pleased your parents, but you'll already be dead...
...luck and his bank account, however, had a way of dissolving under him. First the mail-order business went bad. Then, by his account, he ran into problems with Mexican authorities who did not like some of the station's programming. Wolfman lost his fortune, but not his audience, and was able to start anew at KDAY in Los Angeles. By this time he was a well-established figure, a power in the pop-music field, himself the subject of admiring songs. (Sample, from Leon Russell's Living on the Highway: "He taught me how to sing...