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Despite the mediocre numbers, the year rates as at least a partial success. Harvard's top seven players included one senior, two juniors, two sophomores and two freshmen. The traditional plaint of the losing coach--"it was a rebuilding year"--actually works this time...
...that, through the instrument of television, "has rendered him unaware, passive, with no notion of himself, his life, or of others." He is, in short, the ultimate voyeur, the sum not of his actions but of his reactions to a world of which he has been permitted only a partial and distorted view. Success comes to him because he has no choice but to reflect back at everyone he meets whatever qualities they have projected on him. The woman (Shirley MacLaine) who takes him in after he has been injured in an encounter with her limousine sees...
...situation that the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association, which annually celebrates John Hancock's birthday, Jan. 23, as National Handwriting Day, has decided that it is "hopeless" to go on using the occasion to promote legibility in signatures. But the retreat is only partial. Says Frank L. King, W.l.M.A.'s executive vice president: "We may have weakened on signatures, but not on anything else. We will continue to vigorously provoke people's awareness of bad handwriting...
...inevitably, the arts of a previous generation from those of our own. The Beatles revolutionized popular music, lifting rock from an adolescent eccentricity to a viable music from still growing, albeit spasmodically, after 25 years. Hair, despite artistic shortcomings, legitimized nudity on stage, previously only experimented with in partial or shrouded conditions to insure standards of "redeeming artistic value." Television asserted itself, legitimately or not, in our living rooms, raising a generation on a steady diet of situation comedy, game show and soap opera. It was the '60s generation which, at decade's end, gathered its countercultural offshoots...
While the economic measures that President Carter has ordered represent a necessary first step in expressing our outrage to the Soviet Union, they alone will be completely ineffectual in blocking the spread of war. The partial grain embargo will only inconvenience the Soviet society. And in the short run, Soviet stockpiles of grain will further cushion the blow. The technology blockade will have even less effect. The United States is the Soviet Union's supplier of last resort for all high technology and currently does less than one quarter of the trade that Japan, the Soviet Union's leading western...