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...rode out to see what the Indians were up to at Little Big Horn. I picked Harvard to rout UMass, and Harvard was routed. I picked Cornell to beat Harvard, and Harvard bombed Cornell. I picked Harvard to whip Penn, and Penn whipped Harvard. I picked Harvard to crush Princeton, and you guess it. I did accurately pick Harvard to beat B.U., Columbia, and Brown but Columbia and Brown are the two worst teams in the Ivy League, and B.U. has its worst team in ten years, which considering the last ten years of B.U. football, is quite a distinction...
...Farber's allusions to "Insurgency" snacks of the "think tank Jargon" which characterized the statements of American social scientists and policy makers charged with legitimizing the war in Indochina. For example, he uses much phrases as the "black insurgent threat," "anti Portuguese Insurgents," "Insurgent triumphs," "Insurgent dam busters," "Crush the insurgents...
AMERICAN "FACT FINDING" missions to regimes trying to crush guerrilla movements have been numerous over the last decade. Thus, it is hard to read through the 11,000 words of Stephen Farber's report to the University on his summer "fact finding" trip to Angola without recalling that this is a rather sorry genre of reporting, and without wishing Farber had given more thought to the disastrous errors of his American fact-finding predecessors...
...nevertheless, critical, but for much simpler and more basic reasons. We all know what they are, but they bear repeating. The people of Indochina are being systematically exterminated by the present campaign of American terror, waged to prove a point that is already lost--that the United States can crush popular revolutionary insurrection in the Third World. We have not crushed the Vietnamese and we will not. George McGovern, at the very least, understands that basic political reality. And that is reason enough, in 1972, to elect him President of the United States...
...juxtaposes anachronistic speech with Brooklyn slang. and intersperses flowery phrasings with punchy and often vile lines. The comedy is similar to the Firesign Theatre's Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers. Like the Firesign Theatre, the best of Allen's humor comes down to playing with words...