Word: supers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phantom crowds that cheered on Walter Payton as a boy are for real. As a super running back for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League, he has transformed the Windy City into Payton Place, where adoring fans and the daily papers call him "Wonderful Walter." Little wonder. In his third year as a pro, Payton, 23, has not only broken O.J. Simpson's single-game rushing mark of 273 yds. (275 yds. in November's game against the Minnesota Vikings) but is also helping to keep the rebuilding Bears in contention for a play-off spot...
...Toffler takes the broader view that the problem is more profound than simply the inability of man in modern society to objectify himself through his activity (or labor). Man, Toffler says, developed certain biological equipment long ago, and it is not suited to the industrial or the incipient super-industrial society, hence, maladaptation. This maladaptation is inherent in all modern societies--both capitalistic and socialistic--and Toffler predicts upheavals from "Tokyo to Washington, D.C. to Stockholm to Moscow" as each day brings an increase in tempo in modern society...
...WANT PETRO!"--That's right, we want Petro. We want him to keep coaching John Hynes just like he's been doing, because the kid was super, and is my vote for Group I in goaltending. He's getting consistent and not allowing the dangerous rebounds like he used...
...supporting cast is fine, considering what they had to work with. Robert Preston as Big Ed Bookman is a blustering, stupendously stupid man; as played, the millionaire owner of a pro football team probably couldn't pass a driver's test. He has his moments--asking God in the Super Bowl if since he's a sinner, God is going to fuck him. Clint Murchison of the Cowboys has probably done that, albeit silently. It would be nice if owners were that dumb; the throwback owner of the Giants, Wellington Mara, probably is but not the Murchisons, Hunts, and Robbies...
...world is entering a new "super-technological age" that will barely resemble the epochs before it, he said...