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Hays and Coffin summed up: "Each problem exists in the context of an intense Canadian desire for recognition of its separate national identity. An apparent attitude of bland indifference by the U.S. has been a source of greater irritation than the economic policies themselves...
...parents may find such conclusions oddly bland. An American child can see 12½ hours of nighttime westerns weekly v. 3⅓ in Britain, 10 hours of private-eye shows v. 5 in Britain. And by comparison with such U.S. cut-'n'-shoots as Peter Gunn (see below), the British children's favorite thriller, gentlemanly Fabian of Scotland Yard, rarely fired a slug from pistol or bottle. The British sociologists still saw much room for improvement: better dramas outside the dog-cowboy-detective formulas, more attention to girls (half the audience). Meanwhile, as the London Daily Mirror...
Robert P. Bland '62, of Straus Hall and Chestnut Hill, has been chosen captain of the freshman hockey team. Bland, a goalie, was a standout last year for The Noble and Greenough School...
...have a pretty good team this year," Bland commented yesterday. The Yardlings began their season by defeating Boston College 7 to 2, and last Saturday they brought their record to 2 to 0, crushing Natick High School by a 9 to 0 margin...
Hulot is the same Hulot, same pipe, same coat, same well-meaning, bland incompetence. This time he comes to preposterous unintentional grips with post-war prosperity, the modern source of the bourgeoisie that the French have ridiculed for a hundred years. And his skill for satire, apparent on only a personal level before, is strengthened by the theme and enhanced by his fuller control of the production. Tati's broadside satire of the modern scene is sharp, and cuts particularly deep since in America there don't seem to be even any shabby unsuccessful humanists left for a comparison--everybody...