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...Professional players are often delightfully unaffected in their views-remarks like "I'd rather be at home driving splints under my fingernails" are a typical response to the rehearsal of particularly trying new works. The critics, still dazed by the mystifying complexity of dry post-Webern serialism, can rarely muster the cogency to suffuse their obfuscating verbiage with any genuine perspicuity. And audiences themselves are sullenly apathetic, compared to their predecessors who rioted at the premiere of Le Sacre du Printempus...
Northeastern didn't ignore Bertagna completely, however, as the Crimson netminder was forced to make several sterling saves. The Huskies were plagued with high shots, and could only muster two shots during their single power play opportunity...
Snatching the power of selection from the viewers, the Nixon plan places it squarely in the lap of an unspecified Federal official who will use ambiguous criteria to extort platitudes and placebos from the national media. Local stations would have to pass muster or fold; even the station managers who agree with Whitehead's philosophy would pressure the networks to share the responsibility for modifying programming in 'line with the President's standards. Through this indirect, but potent mechanism, the press freedom of natural networks would be hedged in by Federal intimidation and fenced in by Federal penalty...
Last week Shapp, calling the bill "unsound, unenforceable and totally unfair," vetoed it. Mullen failed to muster the three-fourths majority necessary to override the veto, leaving the state functionally without an abortion law of any kind, since lower courts have declared the present statute unconstitutionally vague and appeals are pending. With that, Mullen sounded the charge for his race against Shapp next spring, which could be among the bitterest elections in Pennsylvania's history: he called the Governor's veto the result of a "paganistic, atheistic philosophy...
Inexperienced Harvard wrestlers couldn't muster enough strength to win important light and middle weight matches as both Cornell and UMass dumped the Crimson in a triangular meet held here Saturday...