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...spring of 1977 Doug Mason told his freshman adviser his plan to combine an East Asian Studies concentration with pre-med courses and wrestling. After listening to a stern warning about the need to preserve one's sanity at Harvard, Mason reacted with characteristic freshman ambition and plowed straight ahead...
...Today, Mason is alive and well, shoulder-deep in a senior thesis on the Taiwanese National Health Insurance Program, waiting patiently to hear from Med Schools, co-captaining the Harvard wrestling squad and every bit as sane as he was three years...
...Although Mason's wrestling career suffered through ups and downs while he weathered a succession of problems with inexperience, illness and injury, his rugged academic requirements and tutorials presented little challenge. When the time came to deal with the biggest ordeal of each wrestling season--making weight--Mason solved all of his troubles at once by burying himself in the stacks of the Yenching Library, far away from the Lowell House dining hall...
...transition from a low key high school wrestling program to college competition required more time and energy. Mason arrived at Harvard after an impressive final year at Friends School in Baltimore, where he captured the City Championship at 145-lbs. He almost singlehandedly packed the stands with spectators, eager to see the pins that were his trademark...
...short, there is an old-fashioned man beneath the smart patter of Simon's dialogue. Moore has given his work a flat, old-fashioned production. And although Mason and Caan are agreeable people, they (and Moore) seem not quite up to the large emotions the film's dark second half requires them to express. Everything is a little too gingerly. In the end, the film must be judged as muted, likable, not all it might have been, but a nice-and terribly decent-try. -Richard Schickel