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...world than an actual coming to grips with the contemporary Christian's problems. But even readers who agree with Author Clark's oversimplified concept of the Christian's duty may find some of his situations too embarrassingly cozy to stomach. Example: the preacher-hero's pep talk to a college assembly. Jesus, he assures, "is in your backfield-the greatest triple threat player the world has ever known . . . He could plunge, pass and punt, that is preach, pray and penetrate to the very heart of God ... Yes, in the final minutes of the game, beaten back...
...sombrero to the strains of Texas Tornado, the act was the standard Hildegarde mixture of sentiment and bounce. Interspersed with her flamboyant piano-playing and her vivacious and nostalgic songs came such blushing lines as "I know I'm not pretty, but I got pep." She kept getting her audiences into the act by handing out roses and kisses to bashful customers (one man decorated with a rose in Olney, Md.: General Omar Bradley...
...afternoon cameramen moved their equipment to Dillon Field House to take scenes of Lloyd Jordan giving the varsity-football team a pep talk is the dressing room. Later, the moviemakers went to Widener to film students studying...
...musicianship, that produces the results Holmes gets from non-professional musicians. He believes very strongly that the best way to get amateur musicians to work together is to make them enjoy it--"by cracking the quip, if necessary." And his humor technique can be modified into a Knute Rockno pep talk when necessary. Two years ago, he read a somehow dispirited group of Bandsmen a Cornell Band press clipping, in which the last line read "The Harvard Band is also expected to appear." As usual, Holmes' team remained undefeated...
...third major category of pep articles deals with class spirit. Beneath the unified front of school spirit there must be a class rivalry which, in its tension, sharpens and intensifies the all-over pep. This rivalry is often set up as a war between freshmen and sophomores, climaxed by a fight, or "rush." The rushes usually break into papers for two reasons: they are either too destructive, or not destructive enough...