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Club members maintained a large supply of soda to give to party members after they sampled the spicy chicken and beef dishes. A native Caribbean, however, said that the food was mild by native standards. "American food is so incredibly bland," said Richard H. Drayton '86, an Adams House resident who lives in Barbados...
Still, every season someone attempts to revive the form. This year's example is Social Security, the bawdy but bland story of a Manhattan art dealer (Marlo Thomas), her suburban sister (Joanna Gleason), their respective husbands (Ron Silver and Kenneth Welsh) and the aged mother who drives them crazy (Olympia Dukakis). Playwright Andrew Bergman has written lustily funny movies (Blazing Saddles, Fletch), but he places only ticktock jokework on the stage. Worse, he creates situations of real pathos and then anesthetizes them. The matriarch is 80, unable to get around without a walker, unwilling to be left alone...
...Bulldogs' sole doubles victory came in the third spot. Brown and Gollob snatched a 6-4 victory from Harvard Captain Roberta Hing and Kristin Bland in the opening set, and fell by the same score in the second. Brown and Gollob took the third set--tainted by Hing spraining her ankle--again by a score...
Kathy Vigna, at first singles, notched a 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 victory, but the Crimson's five other singles players--Cindy Buchsbaum, Cynthia Austrian, Martha Berkman, Kristin Bland and Kathy Mulvehal--won in straight sets...
...ANYTHING interesting has ever happened at Harvard, it seems to have been systematically excised from this bland account. Historians generally tend to focus on the significance of periods of upheaval, but these essays emphasize the placid progress of an educational institution over a shifting population of faceless students and teachers. Student riots are glossed over or ignored. Wartime turbulence is omitted. Conspicuously absent is any mention of the most recent Harvard crisis of student demonstrations in the '60s. Clearly, such a short book cannot include all significant events in the University's formation. Yet the lack of any detailed examination...