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...popular with Boston area student activists-attached to their robes. At Pomona College, something of the spirit of '69 was summed up by the class poet, James E. Rosenberg, who instead of a speech read a passionate poem of societal rebellion, replete with phallic imagery and four-letter bravado...
...such works as Vista or Via Gleam, which to the superficial casual viewer may look like mattress ticking, his pride is made manifest through their towering dimensions. These 5-ft. by 12-ft. canvases surround and subdue the viewer with their commanding presence. The artist's grace and bravado show up in the audacious ease with which he lays together subtly different, visually demanding colors. Vista elegantly challenges the viewer to contemplate the precise differences between more than a dozen shades of pink...
...Wind Ensemble definitely demonstrated that wind music need not be puerile bravado or hideous sentimentality. Their maiden concert allowed the genius of the wind instruments to enjoy full play...
Russian Roulette. Both meetings suggested that it is not only the potential assassin who must be watched but the President or candidate, lest he exhibit too much bravado. "I play Russian roulette every time I get up in the morning," Robert Kennedy once remarked, "but there is nothing I could do about it." The psychiatrists urged that Presidents and presidential candidates be prohibited by law from "close contact" with crowds when a visit has been announced in advance. That is particularly urgent, they suggested, because assassinations themselves breed violent reactions in disturbed people, making other assassinations more likely...
Preparing for their biannual migration to Cambridge, the Yalies lack their usual spirit. Besides a few clever bumper stickers proclaiming "To H with Harvard" and "Flush the Johns" no outward manifestations of bravado are visible...