“Hail the conquering heroes”. Hitler committing hari kari, his dream in flames, in his Berlin Bunker, his mistress Eva Braun’s body nearby, Tojo, Emperor Hirohito’s favorite unconditionally surrendering to General MacArthur.
II
Sammy Match was ensconced in his La Cienega tennis court cubicle. Giving lessons and selling
racquets, coaching Ben Hur’s Charlton Heston in fierce workouts. The Beverly Hills onlookers. Actors themselves like “Boston Blackie ‘s” Kent Taylor.Alan Joslyn playing chess with Allan Mowbary.
III
Arnold “Red” Auerbach out of Brooklyn’s basketball fast break&team play, morphed his competitive adrenalin juices. Drafting Bill Russel and his alter ego K.C. Jones out of San Francisco State.
Coach Auerbach chose Holy Cross’s Bob Cousy as his play maker and point guard, USC’s pure shooter Bill Sharman, another Hall of Famer in futuro (a coach, to too) out of USC;s Trojan nylon nets. His teammates Alex Hannum and Tex Winter, the assistant coach to the chicago Bulls Phil Jackson, the originasl thinker behind their triangle offense, Brooklyn born Michael Jordan and his alter ego Scottie Pippen out of Arkansas making it their carpet to the Hall of Fame. John Paxton and Steve Kerr feeling it from down town.
A 7 footer like Georgetown’s Patrick Ewing,v drafted by the Knicks, anchored the Bulls, giving North Carolina’s Micyhael and “Scotty” their “swish” into the Hall.
A former Yugoslavian morphed as a Serbian Tony Kubek came ofdf the bench, rounding out their championship “fives” .And for capturing defensive rebounds and making the outlet pass one of the twins in the NBA.
A prelude to Jeremy Linnsanity some three our four decades later.
IV
Bill Sharman, an Auerbach protégé, later starred for the Lakers, playing alonside Wilt, Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, Gail Goodrich, Happy Hairston.
Ed Pauley, the oilman and football player from Ucla, his Pauley Pavilion, nurturing his legacy
into the John Wooden immortality.
X
Within the passing of our time, President Truman’s unleashiung the nurcleur energy over Nakasaki and Hiroshima, decades before Steve Jobs of Apple and Microsoft’s Bill Gates,mushrooming their dreams into the morphing of the corporate world into the computer unmiverse.
V
Branch Rickey of the St Louis Cardinals gashouse gang becoming the Brooklyn dodgers general manager broke the color line by engineering the former Pasadena City College and four star athlete from Ucla, Jackie Robinson
Where else at their offices at Montaque and Court Street in downtown Brooklyn.
His hand and eye coordination had come a long way since his grandfather was a sharecropper. Listening to Don Barksdale spinning Ella Fitzgerald Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday recordsat Don arksdale shop on South Western Avenue in L.A.
VI
The human gamble morphing into the billion dollar lottery. The March Madness
survival of the fittest into the sweet sixteen, the final four, and the and their runn and gun of Red Auerbach’s “cigar like enchilada”
Kentucky and Louisville. Ohio State and Kansas .
VIII
The cigar smoke has transcended the six million, their trashing in the Fuhrer’s concentration camps and Warsaw ghettos.
To navigate the Obama health insurance in face of the planet’s avalanch of diseases. Not only the crippling alzheimer’s molecular genesis, the genome basis of neurological infamys, the cancersa curtailing grwoth and development, one of the Justices asking whether ore not we should be obliged to eat brocoli.
Why ll the sound&fury? Porque?
Did the founding fathers make it mandatory To eat brocoli. Does the pursuit of happiness incorporate brocoli?
And if the brocoli Constiutional barrasters persuade and convince the nine justices of the Obama health insurance merits, where does one draw the line.
In our day it was spinach. Will that be next?
Caulifower? Junk food?
VIII
The scyphus boulders shouldered by Prometheus stand in the way of the Arnold “Red” Auerbach free wheeling fastr break and teram work.
Basketball has come a long way in 6 decades,hasn’t it. But the society and its liberating forces are still caught in the recycling limbo.
The nation has evolved since the Democratic party ignored Adlai Stevesnon for John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, LBJ, Jimmy Carter, “Dutch” or the “Gipper” the Busck father and son Bill Clinton.
IX
Where are the Steve Martins, and Spielbers out of Long Beach, Ca’s junior high sachools> Brining their level headed ness and humor to the hellzappin republic..
X
Arnold “Red” Auerbach lighting up his “enchilada” after another a “w” John Havelchic coming off the bench,stealing the basll, the fans eupting like it was the end of World War2. , the players celebrating on those great Boston Garden floors.
Will the fans be remembered for makingbroccoli the vegetable part of their longevity diets or will they falls back into their eating habits.
Or will he learn to love broccoli, brother.
The city that never sleeps,March 30, 2012
Brutus is an honorable man
“Brutus is an honorable man..and they are all honorable men,”said Marc Antony at the funeral pyre of his mentor, Julius Caesar(act IIIi,2,line 87)
II
Unsuspecting innocence caught up in their imagination was the theme in “Sister Carrie”, or
Flaubert’s “Anna Karenina” or “Madame Bovary”. The seductive tentacles and its underlying
menacing sinister lies.
“Oliver Twist” captures the corruption of our time, doesn’t it sire?
“Yet who isn’t vulnerable?” asked Hamlet of his best friend and alter ego, Horatio. . Corrupting the youth was demonstrated by Lord Profumo and Douglas Fairbanks, using their manor estates, lure (Lady Chatterly’s Lover) bringing down the government
III
Innocence itself may be to blame for the phoniness and fraud in a monied society, where the haves and have nots is playing out 24-7. Didn’t Gnger Rogers “Kitty Foyle:an Oscar for her reevaluation, a role from Fred Astaire’s partner in those RKO fantasies..
She retired to Palm Springs to tweet her lyrics. “It’s all a scam, Horatio, “All humans want to vex their vanity on the small screen.”
IV
“What’s disturbing Horatio,”said the Prince. “Penn State&Syracuse coaches taking advantage of their *ball boys “to the showers”, the boys in awe of the roles the coaches were playing out. *Notwithstanding Tom Sawyer and his best friend, Huckleberry Finn.
On the other hand, Amos Alonzo Stagg 101 years into pigskin mentoring at College of Pacific, Ucla’s fullback Moose Myers, becoming an assistant coach under Stagg’s realm.He following his providence.195 pounds of muscle into the shot put&javelin.
V
To coverup the sin of rape by a ‘econd chance’foundation is part&parcel of the convulated thinking.”
But Sartre’s “No exit” interprets the daemonic sexuality as part of the HIV biological revolution...ages 15-19 the highest in the Boro of Brooklyn, New York.
******
“Brutus is an honorable man” playing out.....
The city that never sleeps, November 18,2011
II
Unsuspecting innocence caught up in their imagination was the theme in “Sister Carrie”, or
Flaubert’s “Anna Karenina” or “Madame Bovary”. The seductive tentacles and its underlying
menacing sinister lies.
“Oliver Twist” captures the corruption of our time, doesn’t it sire?
“Yet who isn’t vulnerable?” asked Hamlet of his best friend and alter ego, Horatio. . Corrupting the youth was demonstrated by Lord Profumo and Douglas Fairbanks, using their manor estates, lure (Lady Chatterly’s Lover) bringing down the government
III
Innocence itself may be to blame for the phoniness and fraud in a monied society, where the haves and have nots is playing out 24-7. Didn’t Gnger Rogers “Kitty Foyle:an Oscar for her reevaluation, a role from Fred Astaire’s partner in those RKO fantasies..
She retired to Palm Springs to tweet her lyrics. “It’s all a scam, Horatio, “All humans want to vex their vanity on the small screen.”
IV
“What’s disturbing Horatio,”said the Prince. “Penn State&Syracuse coaches taking advantage of their *ball boys “to the showers”, the boys in awe of the roles the coaches were playing out. *Notwithstanding Tom Sawyer and his best friend, Huckleberry Finn.
On the other hand, Amos Alonzo Stagg 101 years into pigskin mentoring at College of Pacific, Ucla’s fullback Moose Myers, becoming an assistant coach under Stagg’s realm.He following his providence.195 pounds of muscle into the shot put&javelin.
V
To coverup the sin of rape by a ‘econd chance’foundation is part&parcel of the convulated thinking.”
But Sartre’s “No exit” interprets the daemonic sexuality as part of the HIV biological revolution...ages 15-19 the highest in the Boro of Brooklyn, New York.
******
“Brutus is an honorable man” playing out.....
The city that never sleeps, November 18,2011
Aptly named "Happy Valley", the Penn State campus is morphing as the "umappy valley"
Happy Valley, the Penn State campus, once the site of a renowned Hall of Fame coach, Joe Paterno,and the fierce animal energy, behind his
triumphs over 46 years, begun at age 39. . The year 1965 while the Nam war was raging.
II
"Go thee to a nunnery,." were the words akin with Ophelia's despair , Hamlet leaving her at the alter.
But here in Happy Valley,coach Joe demonstrated no game face,nor did his players dress rehearsal before Saturday's Nebraska gig at
UInhappy Valley.(the Trustees firing coach Joe ipso facto, late tonite).
He broke down and cried on knowing in hindsight he should have reported his defensive coorinator's sexual dalliance with a ten year old boy, in the gym's showers, to the police.
A graduate assistant caught the alleged defensive coordinator in the act ten years ago,and reported it to the athletic director and his alter ego.The coverup broke recently, the two men fired,for perjuring themselves before the grand jury...the innocence of eight boys caught up in the perversion.
III
The moral turpitude issue enflames the information highway and the already economic nightmare griping the day to day on line air waves abounding the .
fraternity&sorority rows.
Where it will stop, nobody knows.
IV
Who could or would have forseen such a maelstrom at the end of WW2 when optimism swept over Ucla's Rose Bowl bound players. Coach Burt Labrucherie and his T or a single wing offense. Been around their "fierce energy" at Spaulding Field, the dining hall,scribbling about their proclivities.
Whether the moral influence of coach Wooden at Pauly Pavilion had a different rhythm and chemistry, it's hard to discern. The need to suceed was the paramnount on both ends of the continent,. for even a Rasputin masked in a the athlete's attire...
Wasn't it, Horatrio.?
V
Again coach broke in at Happy Valley at 39 years and for 46 years, honored the game,and his players. A surrogate father, he lived a few blocks away,and strolled to his "stage" for that many moons.
Hewing his players rough energy.
VI
Joe Paterno lived the campus dream.. Walking to his stage for 46 years while thinking out his offense&defense has a scent of Shangri-la about it. Not that far from ourselves at Ucla's quad, Royce Hall and the Regent meetings, their upligfting dialogue, closing in on Pericle's ideals and Plato's work ethic.
The sublimation of such an enchantment within the bounds of college life goes right to the mission of educating young humans and the professors, in their reciprocity. It all being relative..
The hubris demonstrated here means a shake up is necessary. How else can the Happy Valley leadership give their fledglings the character to go out into a corrupt cosmos and carry on, with their futures.
VII
Who could the freshmen sophomores juniors seniors graduate students identify with?. Post graduate life requires that fierce animal vitality,doesn' it? Horatio?
Carrying that rough energy carries a high price for role playing...
Just ask other coaches like Jerry Tarkanian (UNLV) Bobby Knight (Indiana) and Woody Hayes (Ohio State) They seemed to be thriving within their own Happy Valleys until their coming to grips with themselves and breaching the bond with their fledglings. Free of doubts,yearning for strong leadership in their futures..
********
"What's the good word,at what was once Happy Valley, Horatio?"
"Lasciviousness, sire. Lasciviousness."
the city that never sleeps, November 10,2011
triumphs over 46 years, begun at age 39. . The year 1965 while the Nam war was raging.
II
"Go thee to a nunnery,." were the words akin with Ophelia's despair , Hamlet leaving her at the alter.
But here in Happy Valley,coach Joe demonstrated no game face,nor did his players dress rehearsal before Saturday's Nebraska gig at
UInhappy Valley.(the Trustees firing coach Joe ipso facto, late tonite).
He broke down and cried on knowing in hindsight he should have reported his defensive coorinator's sexual dalliance with a ten year old boy, in the gym's showers, to the police.
A graduate assistant caught the alleged defensive coordinator in the act ten years ago,and reported it to the athletic director and his alter ego.The coverup broke recently, the two men fired,for perjuring themselves before the grand jury...the innocence of eight boys caught up in the perversion.
III
The moral turpitude issue enflames the information highway and the already economic nightmare griping the day to day on line air waves abounding the .
fraternity&sorority rows.
Where it will stop, nobody knows.
IV
Who could or would have forseen such a maelstrom at the end of WW2 when optimism swept over Ucla's Rose Bowl bound players. Coach Burt Labrucherie and his T or a single wing offense. Been around their "fierce energy" at Spaulding Field, the dining hall,scribbling about their proclivities.
Whether the moral influence of coach Wooden at Pauly Pavilion had a different rhythm and chemistry, it's hard to discern. The need to suceed was the paramnount on both ends of the continent,. for even a Rasputin masked in a the athlete's attire...
Wasn't it, Horatrio.?
V
Again coach broke in at Happy Valley at 39 years and for 46 years, honored the game,and his players. A surrogate father, he lived a few blocks away,and strolled to his "stage" for that many moons.
Hewing his players rough energy.
VI
Joe Paterno lived the campus dream.. Walking to his stage for 46 years while thinking out his offense&defense has a scent of Shangri-la about it. Not that far from ourselves at Ucla's quad, Royce Hall and the Regent meetings, their upligfting dialogue, closing in on Pericle's ideals and Plato's work ethic.
The sublimation of such an enchantment within the bounds of college life goes right to the mission of educating young humans and the professors, in their reciprocity. It all being relative..
The hubris demonstrated here means a shake up is necessary. How else can the Happy Valley leadership give their fledglings the character to go out into a corrupt cosmos and carry on, with their futures.
VII
Who could the freshmen sophomores juniors seniors graduate students identify with?. Post graduate life requires that fierce animal vitality,doesn' it? Horatio?
Carrying that rough energy carries a high price for role playing...
Just ask other coaches like Jerry Tarkanian (UNLV) Bobby Knight (Indiana) and Woody Hayes (Ohio State) They seemed to be thriving within their own Happy Valleys until their coming to grips with themselves and breaching the bond with their fledglings. Free of doubts,yearning for strong leadership in their futures..
********
"What's the good word,at what was once Happy Valley, Horatio?"
"Lasciviousness, sire. Lasciviousness."
the city that never sleeps, November 10,2011
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