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THAT SUMMARY pinpoints the problems facing all big-time intercollegiate sports, especially football and basketball. Abuses in the recruiting of high-school athletes, the forgery of academic transcripts, the neo-professionalism of the major football universities, the win-at-all-costs attitude permeating many coaching staffs and ranks of alumni--all these are tolerated obscenely in the name of higher education...
...those of us who were weaned on traditional Gilbert and Sullivan--who wore thin the D'Oyly Carte records as children and faithfully attended all the local and high-school productions--this sentiment was not only irritating--it was difficult to countervail. In the face of ever-harder times for new playwrights and non-commercial theaters, how could we justify our inordinate fondness for the costly iron-clad stagings of ten Victorian crowd-pleasers. What could we say to defend our cherished tradition and its domination of artistic resources that would not make us sound like David Stockman...
...hockey madness at Harvard is nothing new. If you've been around here long enough, you know that Harvard hockey is traditionally one of the few real sports the school has to offer, one team your high-school varsity couldn't beat. Harvard used to be the Boston school with the hockey tradition...
Ronald Hayman's biography is excruciating to read. Though the survival of Kafka's work, at lest, is consoling, all the high-school tragedy course rot about our uniquely human capacity to suffer makes it no easier to witness his writhing. Grab another beer and shake your heads. Poor Kafka. Why he clung so desperately to his father, why he endlessly romaticized him and even incorporated a piece of his shopkeeper, artist-as-vermin mentality--these are questions that Hayman knows are unanswerable. How 'bout that Gresor Samsa--transformed into a dung beetle so he kills himself with sorrow watching...
...what of this year? The quarterback is always the key to a Restic offense and the coach does not have a sure prospect. What he does have is Ron Cuccia, one of the most exciting players the Crimson has had in years, who was a legendary high-school qb in Los Angeles, but who has played mostly wide receiver in college. Will Restic risk the diminutive (5-ft., 8-in.) speedster as a signal-caller or tap one of his untested charges? Regardless. Harvard will be strong at running back, led by bruising fullback Jim Callinan. The defense, except...