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Friday night's chant of "Overrated!" by the University of Minnesota-Duluth hockey fans was a little bit premature, as the Crimson thrashed the Bulldogs Saturday night at the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center...
Children are taught to fear sticks and stones but chant that names will never hurt them. Names, and the ideas behind them, do hurt people. Political correctness argues that the price of peace in a racially diverse America may be suppressing ideas that cause such pain. Perhaps that could mean a more civilized nation. Up to now, though, America's genius has not been in its civility, but rather in its raucous barroom brawl in search of the truth...
...that Yale is on its way to its second straight win in The Game. The Bulldogs' amazing quarterback captain Brian Dowling has just tallied his second touchdown run of the day, and Yale's 29-13 lead seems altogether secure. The Old Blues wave the symbolic white handkerchiefs and chant "You're number two," as Harvard fans contemplate an early departure...
...paradox that the dialogue should seem to drag on so uselessly, while the action seems to thunder on like machine-gun fire. This slaughters both the characters and the play. In rhythmic but nonsensical spurts, so much anger builds up in these women that they start to chant "BASTARD MEN! BASTARD MEN!" in an eery, Brave New World-like crescendo, and do it more than once. The fact that boys are made of "snaps and snails and puppy dogs' tails" is hissed visciously from the tongues of the characters, dripping with mockery. There just seems to be an eruptive release...
...Widener steps To commemorate the tradition of setting our watches back an hour, the Cult of Cronus assembled on the Widener steps at 2 a.m. Halloween morning. Holding candles and a clock drawn on a pizza box, the cult recited a chant marking the annual event. "Tick!" "Tock!" the cult members shouted in turn...