The chops of the girl of the Golden West

The chops of the girl of the Golden West. Compton California’sSerema Williams. An art deco poignancy, riding her steed into Puccini’s saloon, dominating what was once a masculine featinto her Cleopatra galloping tempo.  
17 tennis championships, tying the record for the most in the open era of the woman’s game. A legend in the making, still performing on our minor planet’ courts, with a racquet upheaval here and there as  she argues  at  “if in doubt, call it out” heist,undermining her concentration and  swagger.
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Hearing the “score” of John Nash, the mathematician ‘s crackup, his brain neurons crashing into symbolism and syllogisms. Russell Crouse identifying with the chaos, his neurosisoverwhelming his  academic fervor, with colleagues, students and his wife.
A conundrum indeed!  “A beautiful mind” on and off academiaand the tennis court.
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Metamorphosing into cyberspace, leads one to suspect that  appended apps, tablets. The  smart  phones and the   melodious ding a ling electronics apps embody..                                          
Who could have anticipated  cybernetics would enthrall one’s neurons, while  the calculus of   humanity is diminished on the planet, wherever a player dare to scan.
The competitive cosmos into overdrive.
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Meanwhile  the very experience into Compton and the cradle for Serena and her sister Venus; their father and coach, Richard.
Collecting old tennis balls, he looked askance at the cradle. Hislullaby  was a tennis racquet, those fuzzy beat up balls and the Compton park tennis courts.
“How’d he done do it?” Soft spoken, his daughters inherited hisgenes. Day after day…. hours and hours, instilling a discipline into their routine & study habits. Their natures devouring whatever their coach and father, tossing up those  second hand balls.
His own classroom of all year tennis: Bill Tilden, Alice Marble,Althea Gibson, Don Budge, Ellsworth Vines, 
Billie Jean King.  …the hand and eye coordination of Ucla’s Jackie Robinson, Arthur Ashe shacking ball after ball.
Sleeping, eating tennis day and night, the toddlers sacking their infancy as foundlings into drop shots, overheads, volleys, hitting to depth, cross court, down the line, their father coach throwing those used tennis balls until his student daughters made it a part of their souls and second nature.
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Our own role, teaching at nearby North Long Beach’s Lindberg Jr. High, driving into the Compton red streetcar hub, feeling the tempo at Compton City College… their basketball fever year after year.
Could any spectator realize what was playing out at the park’s tennis courts, seeing  father coach, tossing bal after ball to his  pre kindergarten bred daughters ball after ball…forehand, backhand, serve, overhead ……  (“let it bounce, use your smarts”) volleying at the net.
Cultivating a killer’s instinct as Richard in gathering up those used balls, saw Pancho Gonzales from the barrio and Boyle Heights in East Los Angeles, mature into a “controlled power”tactician from the other side of the tracks.
“Pancho” Segura from Ecuador, acquired a reputation as a steady teaching pro and all court competitor before open tennis invalidated the amateurs no “dinero” tennis ,losing its credibilityforever.
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Who’s to say that amateur game was light years behind professional spots. Bill Tilden making a living by giving lessons on that Hollywood Boulevard court, off the HollywoodRoosevelt Hotel. But Richard Williams shagging those beat up balls, carted them off to Compton and furthering his dream by indoctrinating those ballse into his daughter’s learning  graphsand genesis.
Puccini’s heroine metamorphoses into the strong soprano of his “Girl from the Golden West”. But how long and how many operas did it take for his scores to evolve from the left bank of poverty and tuberculosis (“La boheme”)  synthesis.
                                               
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The comeuppance of Serena Williams to evolve into the “Girl from the Golden West”, recognizes the moral underpinnings ofher all court “sweats”.
‘If in doubt, call it out”
The City that never sleeps, November 2, 2014

Hearing earlier about the nurse from Colorado

Hearing earlier about the nurse from Colorado, suspected of being exposed t the Emboli virus,(a contagious disease) seems to have transcended the disease. Being under suspicion, she was  quarantined in New Jersey.
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The very nature of the quarantine may be cause for celebration. But in this instance the 21 day period gives rise to the nurse hiring a legal eagle to argue the quarantine is suppressive..
A step forward may be a protocol for the welfare and survival of the species but for the nurse in this instance, doesn’t it compel a moment of personal discovery.
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Anyone who is blessed with good health; not having fever and bodily functions in question, the nurse’s case for an invasion of her  freedom to travel, without any limitations, may in some                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       quarters  be unconscionable That the protocol insures public safety; the virus from the invisible is cause for contendinghealth professionals overreacted.    
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Where is there a reign of terror?  Wasn’t Florence Nightingale a proponent of making humanity more human. Madame Curie going forward as a woman, raising the consciousness   of herblood cultures
No one represses the nurse’s voice, repressing her “TyphoidMary” connotation.  In weighing her sound in the chorale of dissenting voices in the cosmos , could it be interpreted as asound track short circuiting......
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Those public health pros: their passionate protocols wherever: Dallas, D.C. New York, New Jersey, an armada of “diagnosis”from hospitals across the nation and West Africa, replicatingprotocols.
Quarantine is not a measure of  imprisonment. Simply put an example of furthering the dialogue, the commitment of protocols, advancing the threshold of medicine to its highest….significant response where the public interest is threatened fromthe virus’s death dealing inevitability.
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“Doctor Livingston, I presume,” said Spencer Tracy as Stanley,discovering Sir Cedric Hardwicke in the West African underbrush.

October 29, 2014 The City that never sleeps
                                                                                                                                                      

While it sees thousands and thousands of years ago

While it sees thousands and thousands of years ago, on the Ocean Park boardwalk in Southern California, a Royal CanadianMounted Policeman got on his knees and sang “Rose Marie I love you”, to a fresh and dreamy Jeanette Macdonald, the Canadian Rockies in the background.
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On hearing about the onslaught by a lone deranged killer of aNelson Eddy Mountie ranger 24 hours earlier… being mowed down by a way out disturbed Islamic sympathizer, brain washed by their sound and fury..
Doesn’t it seem the outrage has gone beyond the Ottawa Parliament building and that these tides of insanity are a deranged compact with demoniac streams of consciousness. The startling inhumanity scores attention: the image and ideas of lost souls, gaining the egotism in their dementia that hat they couldn’t get when they were alive and striving for recognition and realization   in a Royal Canadian Nelson Eddy love duet.
Why his brain neurons short wired this  invasion in Ottawa maybe a microcosm of  Freud’s “Civilization against theDiscontents”  
A paradox indeed! 
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There is a disillusionment  when these humans no longer able to reconcile themselves with the myths their twisted contemporaries exist by.
But for all those humans on the Ocean Park boardwalk, thefantasized   handsomeness of Nelson  Eddy in his uniform, singing to an enthralled Janette Macdonald…sounds like anancient vintage from the La Brea tar pits.
The Saber tooth tigers out of grrr…l cruelty had no musical memory.  “Rose Marie, I love you” beyond their Alley Op and Denny the Dinosaur range of Bach preludes Haydn symphonies  Mozart melodies and Beethoven’s odes of Joy in his Ninth...
October 23, 2014  The City that never sleeps.
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