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...selection of his finalists, and to an impartial observer, the roster does seem a little top-heavy with Harvard men. No less than 12 of the selectees rowed for Parker at one time or another at Cambridge. Six of them--Paul Hoffman, Cleve and Mike Livingston, Bill and Fritz Hobbs and Monk Terry--rowed at Mexico in one shell or another. Five more men--Dave Weinberg, Gene LaBarre, Dave Fellows, Dave Sawyier and Dave Mitchell--were members of this Spring's varsity eight. Tom Tiffany coxed the varsity in 1971, and two others, present lightweight varsity stroke Tony Brooks...
...HISTORY Department had its full share of unpleasantness in Fall, 1969, when it debated the appointment of Fritz Stern, a German history professor at Columbia. David S. Landes, professor of History and Stern's good friend, supported the appointment enthusiastically. Oscar Handlin, Warren Professor of American History, led the opposing forces. As usual, the sides split roughly along the American and European divisional lines of the Department...
This sextet will be joined by an illustrious set of Harvard graduates seeking to represent the U.S. in Munich. The alumni will be headed by Fritz and Billy Hobbs, who represented the U.S. in the 1968 Olympics. Mike and Cleve Livingstone, Monk Terry, Paul Wilson and coxswain Paul Hoffman...
Bakshi's animation is good, and the visuals-which marvelously capture the grainy, lowering look of the Manhattan streetscape-are raucous, ingenious and convincing. But Fritz the Cat is, for a cartoon, exasperatingly slow: Bakshi's sense of pace and editing is snail-like, and the dialogue mostly naive and muffled. Moreover, the characters are so ill-defined that Fritz's relation to them becomes incomprehensible-a sad defect for a movie that should have been as crisp and schematic as a puppet show. The voice-over acting constantly hovers just below the threshold of competence...
...greet Fritz as a masterpiece of satire, or even as a significant voice from the counterculture, is wishful thinking: Bakshi seems to have been as unsure of his targets as Fritz himself. The '60s, in all their wide-open absurdities, still demand a more pointed epitaph than this. It will come as no surprise to head comic fans to learn that, on seeing what became of Fritz in the film, Crumb asked to have his name removed from all publicity. Meanwhile, the movie, largely because of Fritz's bathtub scene, got an X rating, something of a coup...