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...CRIMSON bears diurnal testament to the fact that you are "only college students playing Newspaper." We who work at the Loeb, however, are not, as Mr. Brackman suggests, "playing Entertainment...
...interest in the CRIMSON review, which Mr. Brackman so joyfully belittles, stems not from reverence for your writers' erudition. (Long experience has accustomed us to expect little in the way of illuminating criticism from a CRIMSON reviewer. We know, well before we enter the building, his piece will be an expression of himself, full of sly conceits and clever phrases that scarcely conceal his failure to appreciate a production insghtfully or his general ignorance of theatrical problems.) Rather, we are concerned with your reaction to a play because we must be. It is our misfortune that the Harvard community...
...Jacob Brackman's "Bad Focused Slides With Sound" suffers too from a clipped, somewhat short hand style, but only because his piece is by far the most ambitious and interesting in the magazine. He attempts to write not about a day but a generation, not about one person but a boy's divergence from his family...
Using a terse, first person voice, Brackman must imply a great deal through the order and content of the narrator's descriptions. But sometimes the detail is overly suggestive, forcing the reader to seek answers which simply cannot be found within the story. Nonetheless, if Brackman only hints at some relations and sources of motivation, he creates a genuinely poignant mood of wistful loneliness through a difficult narrative technique...
...Brackman had troubled to read the ads on the same page as his non-review of Charade, he would have noticed that the film was about to open at his friendly neighborhood theatre, the Harvard Square, where it is now playing (adv.) and where his request for a reviewer's pass would have been honored, allowing him to observe, among other things, that Audrey Hepburn never, never wears four-inch heels. Jey A. W. Pratt, Harvard Square Theatre...