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...Harvard breezed through the number two, three and four matches as junior John Ingard vanquished Charles Einsiedler, 6-2, 6-2, and sophomore Gary Reiner routed Tom Koerner, 6-3, 6-1. Veteran junior Chip Baird defeated Jim Ware, 6-4, 6-2, in what Baird called a "blase match...
Even these weighty problems, how ever, failed to excite a blase public. When the last of three Skylab crews finally splashed down off Lower Cali fornia last week, their successful home coming was not even given live cover age by the TV networks, though the astronauts had set a remarkable endurance record of 84 days in orbit...
...shamble onstage to begin their low-key performance, Dylan and the Band are in complete control of the audience. Dylan's early folk-rock numbers, punctuated by Band standards like The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down and Up on Cripple Creek, are knocked out with an almost blase professionalism. But if Dylan is short on emotion, he makes up for it in energy. Shouting into the microphone in his haunting nasal howl, he spits out his message like a cobra. Since neither the performers nor the songs need introduction, there is no chatter between numbers. Dylan...
With so much left to be done, it is sad to see the re-emergence of a cult of callousness--a sort of blase cynicism, of premature exhaustion--around Harvard. The cynicism represents, it seems to me, a case of posturing, of a stance, of an attitude that suddenly becomes "in," rather than of a "new conservatism" in any political sense that students have begun to take different positions on issues than they took in the heights--or depths--of the sixties. As always, The Crimson reflects the mood well. The ideology of the sixties Left is still there, including...
...peerless young actor of apparently unlimited range, appears as Mick Travis, who when last seen was shooting up his prep school common in Anderson's //. Here again, Travis is afloat in a society that is both recognizable and out-of-joint, where business meetings can turn into blase conferences on genocide. Mick's struggle to make a success in such an unbalanced world forms the classic curriculum for his picaresque education...