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...underdog status, has been further inspired by reports of Penn's overconfidence and some comments by Quaker coach Bob Seddon about the Crimson defense. "They've been saying we have the worst fullback line in the league, fullback and captain Ric Scott said yesterday, and it is rather foolish. Their overconfidence is something we are trying to cultivate" he added. With the added incentive of revenging last year's 52 loss to Penn in Philadelphia, the team should have no trouble getting up for today's game. This game means a lot to people. They've been waiting a year...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Harvard Booters to Meet Penn Today | 11/4/1972 | See Source »

...ABSOLUTELY absurd isn't it," muttered Malcolm Deane, a British reporter from the Manchester Guardian who was sitting next to me on press bus seven. "I mean there are sensitive peace negotiations going on, and this idiot is driving all over the place in his foolish motorcade. We don't have anything like this in Britain," Dean continued, growing more indignant as the pool reporter announced the latest revised body count from Captain Keith over the walky-talky. "We do have something we call motor-tours," Deane observed, "but they are designed to allow the candidates to debate...

Author: By David R. Ignatius, | Title: How to Re-Elect an Armadillo | 11/3/1972 | See Source »

...were to convince us, we would have to feel there was some spirit on her part. But Rosemonde is incredibly immature -- spoiled, willful, and foolish. At the end of the film, we see her swirling amidst the Geneva crowd, Free and Happy. Loving Life...

Author: By David R. Caploe, | Title: The Poverty of (Film) Philosophy | 10/12/1972 | See Source »

...Greenaway Judas will not only seem bizarre but blasphemous: in the Judas gos pel, it is Judas, for instance, who utters (in a somewhat different context) the Eucharistic formula for the Last Sup per. Yet Van Greenaway's anticlericalism is usually witty, and only occasion ally foolish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ecce Homo | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

...actions as "bad, not evil." There may be more than a semantic nicety to that. But it is unsubstantiated by Marjoe's attitude. He is using this film as a springboard toward an acting and singing career, and his regard for the people he preached to as foolish and blind bespeaks lack of compassion that, in his case, is particularly unbecoming...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Hallelujah | 10/5/1972 | See Source »

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