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Christmas tree lit by 75 standard bulbs burning four hours a day would use 290 of power a week, a relatively harmless indulgence. A tree decorated with 75 twinkle lights would expend 170 of electricity a week...
...different cause, have been just an amusing nut. All of his crazy side effects--the incessant tape-recording, the impromptu I.Q. tests given over the phone--might have been funny. But because of his racism, he has to be seen in a far different light. He's not harmless. He's not just "controversial" or "provoking". He is, instead, a destructive force who should not be lent respectability by colleges and television stations that allow him to speak. His Nobel prize and pseudo-scientific trappings don't make him any different from a Ku Klux klan chieftain--and KKK members...
...Harvard saved its worst performance for the last game of the season. Yielding three first-half touchdowns to a fired Yale squad, Harvard never had a chance. The Eli pass defense, led by Elvin Charity, scuttled the Harvard passing attack and held Pat McInally to three receptions for a harmless 29 yards. The Eli win enabled Yale to tie Harvard and Penn for second in the league...
...suggest that he would later take exception to it, dramatically ceasing public performance to work in a camp for refugees from dictatorship. Casals talked back to some of his royal patrons, complaining of the flattery and hypocrisy at the court, but the Spanish royalty must have thought his comments harmless, for they continued their support. He was even invited to play for Victoria, whom he later remembered for the "white veil she wore on her head and the Hindu servant who placed a footstool at her feet...
Each number is followed by a computerized 15-second pause before the warbling revives like an audio-phoenix every time you think (hope) it has died out. The next notable contribution to the show was a harmless burble version of "I Want to Make It With...