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Beecher is nearly prose-flat, simplistic, partial to Walt Whitman's "barbaric yawp" and defiant about it: "Must I be schooled,/ veil plain speech in symbolic fog, costume/ polemics for a merry morris dance,/ practice new types of ambiguity . . .?" He can be perversely unsophisticated, monotonously on the side of the "little...
...largely a suburban phenomenon. It began to catch on in the late '50s in the South and Midwest, but the real boom began in the late '60s with the decline of the inner cities and the rising fear of crime. In the Washington, D.C., area, notes Actor Walt Lachman, a dozen suburban restaurant-theaters sprang up after the riots of 1968. "The white middle-class dollar was not coming downtown after that," says Lachman, "and the theater needs that suburban dollar to survive...
Things changed radically for DeBusschere in 1968, when the Pistons traded him to the Knicks for Walt Bellamy. The Knicks were barely playing .500 basketball. They hadn't finished first or second in their division in ten years, and had never won the NBA championship...
...Celts' success on Sunday was coach Tommy Heinsohn's strategic substitution in the second quarter. Heinsohn sent Paul Silas in for Don Chaney and moved John Havlicek to guard along with Jo Jo White, creating a serious mismatch with Knicks guards Walt Frazier and Earl Monroe...
...White was runner-up in scoring to Havlicek with 22 points, while Walt Frazier and Dave DeBusschere led the Knicks with 16 and 15 points respectively...