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...same increase in interest in the lower weights can be seen in the classiest division of boxing, the heavyweights. Fighters such as Ken Norton, Jimmy Young, George Foreman and Duane Bobick provide the star, Ali, with a supporting cast for the first time in a long while. There are some serious contenders around, rather than the steady diet of Chuck Wepners, Joe "King" Romans and Ron Standers whom we've seen far too often...
...well-known, has a massive ego. Could not the proliferation of the fight game while he remained in retirement be reason enough to fight again? People are talking so much about fighters like Norton and Young that Ali may feel the spotlight slowly shifting off him towards new athletes. Thus, his "unretirement" takes on almost as much a publicity angle as it does a financial one. Ali says he is the greatest, and may simply want recognition of that fact while it still may be true...
...again things change. And the increased intelligence of boxers on the whole is something which can be mutually attributed to society and Ali. Interviews with Norton, Young and a boxer known as Armando Muniz all exhibited the tremendous rise of intellectual capacity in boxers when compared with the older, dumber models of Joe Louis and Rocky Graziano. Intelligence, then, as much as the increased flamboyance of fighters on all levels, has rejuvenated the flame in boxing--one which saw the most boxers in history participate in the New York Golden Gloves competition...
...literary expression. He believes rather that each work of art is rooted within a mythological framework derived, in our culture, from the Bible. Frye's main theoretical interest in recent years has been the classification of the various narrative movements and symbolic elements which characterize particular literary modes. His Norton lectures, for example, dealt with the structure of romance, which he referred to as "the secular scripture...
After a strong performance in the Ivy League tourney in Philadelphia last weekend, the Radcliffe hoopsters hit the road again last night for Norton, Mass. where they easily whipped Wheaton...