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Arthur Carlsberg, Financier Johnny Cash, Singer Dick Cavett, Television Host Wilt Chamberlain, Basketball Player
...rough and tumble world of professional basketball, survival is often the name of the game. Early this season, the Los Angeles Lakers lost the services of Center Wilt Chamberlain, the victim of a torn knee tendon. Wilt missed 70 games, and the Lakers were lucky to make the National Basketball Association playoffs. The New York Knickerbockers, on the other hand, never had a better season: they breezed into the finals behind Center Willis Reed, the league's Most Valuable Player. Then last week, with the best-of-seven series tied at two games apiece, a startling turnabout occurred. There...
...nights later in Los Angeles the Lakers could not do anything wrong. With Reed still sidelined, the Lakers' strategy was basic: work it in to Wilt. He responded by raking in 27 rebounds and scoring 45 points as the Lakers crushed the Knicks 135 to 113. That tied the series at three games apiece and set the stage for the final game. Vowed Reed: "I will play even if I have to hop around...
...fatal miscasting of the female lead, and the lack of style in much of the blocking and pseudo-choreography, gave me that feeling of death I associate with the Saturday afternoons I spent taking tickets at a theatre in Washington where so many hopeful Broad-way shows seemed to wilt up and die before my very eyes during their tryouts...
Survival is the question. Most budding poets soon wilt and retire rather than risking sanity in a quixotic struggle to capture and liberate something in themselves. Those who continue probably have no choice. Ironically, that is the only way they can survive. Meanwhile, aspiring writers are stricken with self-doubt about writing. If, as Pound wrote, "The scientists are in terror/and the European mind stops," they wonder whether they shouldn't feel slightly embarrassed penning verse. Perhaps the class of 1910 could confidently strive for greatness, but the class of 1970 no longer knows what greatness...