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...Bicentennial Follies, for example--LaZebnik draws his chief inspiration from literary classics rather than from the contemporary American scene. His technique, like Tom Stop-pard's in Rosencrantz and Guildenstein are Dead, is to abstract well-known characters from their original dramatic setting and place them in an absurd world where they toy with the conventions of language, and quest--unsuccessfully, of course--for the meaning of their existence...
...absurd for Harvard Delivery to plan to leave the question of reimbursing subscribers to the results of a year-end audit. Unless it plans to declare bankruptcy, the service should move immediately to rebate students the full cost of undelivered papers...
Nevertheless, to blame the fans for a loss is simply absurd. The hockey team lost to Brown here but beat them in Providence without a band, without Section 18, and, I suspect, without a very large contingent of fans. They beat nationally-ranked Michigan State twice under similar conditions over the Christmas break. Harvard's squash team is the best in the country; yet they draw only a small fraction of the number of people who go to watch hockey. In short, a good team should not need a boisterous crowd to win! Art Powell...
...blame fans for a loss is absurd, and neither columnist is guilty of doing that. Both emphasized the failure to add that "something special" which is so much a part of the home ice edge. And indeed, a good team would not need a boisterous crowd to win, but such a crowd can be of immense help when the going gets rough...
...imply that ads currently running in The Crimson would be pulled on a regular basis, if The Crimson's bank account was larger, is absurd. What would go? Playboy for shocking sexism? The Coop for aiding and abetting corporate capitalism and imperialism...