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...best talents into the shaping of his own latter-day personality in a series of public appearances (he once hired Carnegie Hall for himself) in which he could be heard advocating better boxing, better orgasms, bullfights in Central Park, and other items of surrealistic irresponsibility. But he is a fearless performer, a lively controversialist and handles heavy cultural names like King Lear, Dostoevsky, Freud, Sartre like a demented, butter-fingered juggler...
...Fearless Jack is a well-knit 49-year-old fellow with a pugilist's jaw, who knows how to handle himself when things get rough in the men's washroom. The potential opposition was either cool or only slightly smoldering, however. "We give our critics a free hand," said Managing Editor Turner Catledge, betraying no surprise at Critic Gould's intrafamilial sabotage. "Our first obligation is to our readers...
Harvard University has been long considered a fearless leader in providing a climate of encouragement and support for historically significant exploration and discovery. We propose that research designed to study the use of psychedelic substances for man's growth and education is just such exploration. We urge you and the policy-making bodies of the University to review from both an immediate and historical perspective the public position into which Harvard has cast itself with regard to this research...
Before Greece and North Korea, before Hungary or the Berlin Wall, this sort of cumulative indictment might have evoked sage nods and won its author a reputation for fearless thinking. But to a cold war-scarred world, a man who cannot tell the difference between Russia and the U.S. seems too unhinged to be tellingly cogent on any other topic. As criticism, it seems a bit like the officer who stops in the midst of battle to dress down a soldier for failing to shave...
...make it to the game, you can catch a glimpse of these fearless musicians as they parade through the Square at 11 A.M., snarling traffic, breaking drum sticks, and giving a memorable rendition of "10,000 Men of Harvard...