Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership. Occasionally, we do quite well with it. So you can see I've grown to be much more of an optimist than I was when I got off the freight train that brought me to law school. There's a fine group of people in this country, people who badly want to do the right thing. That's the strength of the United States...
...reverse the rail system's dangerously downhill direction, Premier Kakuei Tanaka, an avid train buff, helped push through the Diet a ten-year, $40 billion program to upgrade JNR's equipment and tracks...
...other half of the bill, Peter Handke's Calling for Help, is more coherent, I guess, since every other sentence is the same. The five actors speak various announcements--"Follow me--unobtrusively," or "Presumably the train will arrive a few minutes late," or whatever else struck Handke's fancy--and then the other actors say "No," with an impressive variety of gestures and expressions. The company is good in this play too, but the gestures and expressions aren't enough. Not even the ending, in which all the actors yell for help and then say "Yes," is enough...
...best part of the book deals with the heavyweight boxing champions since 1956--Patterson, Johansson, Liston, Ali, Frazier, Foreman--and their biggest fights. Cosell offers inside information and for once lets athletes, rather than himself, dominate the action. He recalls a visit to Sonny Liston's training camp during which Liston and Liston's wife danced in the ring to the song "Night Train." He discusses Ali's poor conditioning before his 1972 title fight with Joe Frazier and before his bout last spring with Kenny Norton...
Farther down the street the soulful sound of reggae music booms out over the sidewalk from a record shop, adding a beautiful sound to an ugly and scarred landscape. Around the corner, train tracks run overhead, their heavy cargo drowning out the noise of the busy open-air market below. On the corner, a group of militant black and white Marxists bombards passers-by with pamphlets arguing the "class nature of the oppression of blacks on all fronts--economic, political and cultural...