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...plea of temporary insanity. Arkansas' Wilbur Mills began behaving strangely in public with an exotic dancer called the Argentine Firecracker. When he recovered himself for a moment, he told his constituents it all came from drinking champagne with foreigners. But then he landed with the Fire cracker at Washington's Tidal Basin in the middle of the night. Mills got hold of himself, acknowledged to himself and everyone else that he was an alcoholic, and sought treatment...
Those errors, two-out miscues by first-cracker Gary Frechette and third baseman Bill O'Leary that sandwiched around Schepers's single, each scored a Crimson baserunner and helped the visitors take a 4-0 lead after three frames...
Tony, Benny's son (the bildungs roman continues), travels across the country, stopping briefly in Kansas and seducing a young blond waitress in the cornfields by telling her, "This country is my Cracker Jack Box, and you're my prize," in typical Bakshi Americana style...
Those who came wished they had not. Harvard has played far worse games this season. But unlike the disasters at B.C. and RPI, there were no shining lights in the darkness, no surprises in the cracker jacks. Just dull, somnolent, uninspired hockey for sixty minutes, and when it had ended, the Crimson's eighth loss in its last nine games...
...years since, over 150 doctoral theses (in French and Japanese as well as English) have tried to explain exactly what those dozen splendidly provoking essays meant. This three-day gathering, half birthday party, half academic cracker-barrel session, has added a second question: Why do the Agrarians, with their crusty prophecies and affirmations, still sound so pertinent, half of a very non-agrarian century later...