Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prior to 1974's historic anomaly, the West Coast warriors of John Wooden won seven titles in a row. Deservedly, yes. Imperially, invincibly, resoundingly...
...they do such things--and more--in Harlan County and Anderson County and the West End of Louisville. And when leapin Wesley Cox and savvied Jimmy Dan Conner take it on the tube Saturday and Monday nights, it should become abundantly clear why it's just morally wrong for Wooden and Co.--superb as they are--to win the NCAAs...
...took all of those elements combined to usurp Adolph Rupp's hegemony on national titles at UK. It will definitely take more than Wooden and Syracuse coach Roy Danforth (who incidentally, applied for Bob Harrison's job here two years ago) can muster to deter the squads Rupp's successor Joe B. Hall and UL's Denny Crum (Wooden's former assistant) take to San Diego...
...Jones, assistant professor of Psychology and Social Relations and teacher of Psych and Soc Rel 1860, "Sport, Play and Society": "I see Kentucky and UCLA in the finals, and I have a feeling that Kentucky will go all the way, though I prefer UCLA. Mainly because my respect for Wooden. But I'm very, very impressed with the enthusiasm and court pressure Kentucky combines. Do I wish we had big-time college basketball around here? Sure, it's unfortunate that we don't. It's healthy to get excited about the performance, the skill involved, the competition, the crowds...
...sounds like an Oriental Hearst at San Simeon, but the vast ostentation of the Momoyama warlords had a political aim: to dazzle visitors and cow supplicants. In private they practiced a cult of austerity the essence of which lay in the tea ceremony: the rough bowl, the unpainted wooden panel, the natural stone which, in manifesting sabi (simplicity or emptiness), embodied the ideals of the samurai class by repeating, in the aesthetic sphere, the discipline and frugality of a warrior's life...