Word: pistone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rejoicing in my own private nirvana, I eagerly set off each game day for Cobo Hall, determined to help make 1978-79 the Detroit Piston's first championship season...
...ninth grade, my twin brother Tom and I managed to acquire what seemed to be the most sought-after job the city of Detroit had to offer. All of the boys at Covington Junior High were uncontrollably jealous of the Doctoroff twins--the new Detroit Piston Ballboys...
...buddies: Bob Lanier, Kevin Porter, Ralph Simpson, Eric Money, John Shumate, Chris Ford, Ben Poquette and M.L. Carr. Once childhood heroes, these were the guys I worked with. In December, when the Detroit Piston Basketball Corporation Christmas cards arrived, there I was--along with the players, coaches, secretaries and janitors wishing the Motor City fans a happy Noel...
Since fifth grade, I have spent my hard-earned paper route money towards Piston, Lion and Tiger tickets. Time and time again, I suffered by viewing their athletic fiascos. Still, I went and watched...
...last survivors, along with Copland and Sessions, of an important generation of composers that included Walter Piston, Roy Harris, Douglas Moore, Howard Hanson and Leo Sowerby, Thomson's lasting contributions are likely to be the two operas he wrote with Stein (the second was the 1947 The Mother of Us All) and his criticism. Critic Thomson cheerfully concurs about the operas, at least: "I think I am a good opera composer. There have been some 3,000 performances of The Mother of Us All. It makes you know it is foolproof." No major opera house has yet produced...