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...whole. Amidst what would seem to be his verbatim transcription of his portion of the war, the poet's moments of reflection are neither disruptive nor pompous, but as frugal, honest and ironic as his descriptive poetry. Somewhat misleadingly, it is his most philosophically-inclined poem "A Bummer" which appears on the front of the book; it concludes with a rare instance of generalization...
Gone too were the Summerthing Concerts in Harvard Stadium that drew even more people into Cambridge and which last summer went hand-in-hand with disturbances in the Square. Like so many others, the organizers of Summerthing somehow arrived at the conclusion that Cambridge was fast becoming a massive bummer. They moved the twice-weekly concert series to the Boston Common...
Gloria Random does not need puzzles to approach the subject. The 17-year-old fugitive love child of James Leo (Midnight Cowboy) Herlihy's new novel finds that incest is purely and simply a bummer. Like her friends down at the crash pad, she handles problems with a jarring forthrightness...
More significantly (?), Rags has introduced an advice-to-the-small-businessman column, authored by Philip Freund, himself former business manager for RS. "Like everything else in life, business is neither a good nor an evil," Freund writes. "What makes the business trip a bummer is the same basic number that screws up almost everything that man attempts. The Uglies-greed, competition, false pride. . ." To combat the Uglies, Freund recommends self-discipline: "Don't try to get too big too fast, don't engage in competition for its own sake, dig what you're doing." Wow, man, self-discipline! Some trip...
...Bummer: a bad drug reaction. Broadly, a negative experience, such as "Cambodia was really a bummer...