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...chose Dick Bertrand, the tri-captain of the undefeated team. Bertrand's credentials extended way beyond his 17 goals and 30 assists. He was 28 years old, had been a policeman before coming to Cornell, and was on the staff of a boarding school for problem teenagers. He did not fit into the traditional stereotype of Cornell hockey players...
...that can be said for the futurists, and for prophets of all kinds, is that their predictions force men to examine the likely outcome of what they are doing, and then add a little to the limited choice and control men have over events. "I would willingly say," declares Bertrand de Jouvenel, "that forecasting would be an absurd enterprise were it not inevitable. We have to make wagers about the future; we have no choice in the matter...
When R. P. I. and Brown broke Cornell's 30-game winning streak, speculation flourished that the Big Red was no longer a contender in college hockey. However, Kevin Petit's return from a knee injury seems to have steadied new coach Dick Bertrand's squad. Cornell also relies heavily on sophomores, who took a few games to adjust to varsity competition...
...builder and Red Wing coach will draw the kind of player Cornell needs to stay on top. And since Harkness will have no "official" capacity at Cornell, he will be free to use whatever measures he needs to recruit that talent. In addition, the man who replaced him. Dick Bertrand, is a walking stereotype of the Harkness player-28 years old, a former Canadian mountie who skated for Cornell last winter, and who was ineligible for the NCAA tournament. Plus ca change, plus cest la meme chose...
Peter Shaffer, whose succès de spectacle was The Royal Hunt of the Sun, plays a labored game of "hound the humanist" in The Battle of Shrivings. Sir Gideon Petrie (John Gielgud) is an aged, Bertrand Russell-like champion of rationalism living ascetically at Shrivings, a converted medieval abbey in the Cotswold Hills. From there he guides a peace movement and blandly preaches the perfectibility of human nature to youthful acolytes and to his wife (Wendy Hiller), with whom he renounced sex, on principle...