Word: wilted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...season into a romp; they have sprinted to a 23-2 record -the best start in league history-and have surpassed the N.B.A. consecutive-win record of 17. Says Captain and Center Willis Reed: "The fans here used to come to the Garden to watch Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell do their stuff. Now they come to watch...
Black athletes are capitalizing on their star value in the fast-growing field of franchising. Wilt Chamberlain has a Diners Fugazy Travel franchise in Los Angeles, and Lou Brock holds a Dodge dealership in East St. Louis. Retired Celtics Forward Willie Naulls, who now lives in Los Angeles, has a Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise and a shopping center in the Watts-Compton area. He plans to open his own chain of Soulville, U.S.A., take-out food stores, which are to be designed along the lines of the shack he lived in as a child in Texas. Brady Keys, a former...
After noon, it got colder and the humor of the frustrating takes began to wilt. Phoebe, who had been talkative at first, started to withdraw from the group. She stood by the stop sign in silence, clutching her clapboard, waiting for each take to begin. As Tim put it, it was becoming a drag. But at 2 p.m., after 13 takes, the shot was over...
...Name the colleges from which the following players graduated: Sam Jones, Jerry Lucas, Rick Barry, Jerry West, Rudy LaRusso, Wilt Chamberlain...