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...hand Harvard certainly doesn't fit the image of the Big Ten school--there are no pep rallies before big games or flash card sections in the stands. But on the other hand, Harvard is far from the image that most people attribute to it--that Harvard students are basically unconcerned with their teams and take a very blase attitude toward sports. The answer lies somewhere in between...
Pointedly suspicious of outsiders (roughly defined as anyone whose birth certificate is not on file at the local hospital), some Islanders suspected that Hollywood interlopers would wreck their tranquillity, ruin the tourist season and befoul their waters. Others pointed out that a film crew of 150 or so would pep up business considerably during a recession offseason. So the Islanders settled back to watch events with skepticism...
Republicans Beryl Sprinkel and Murray Weidenbaum insist that more fiscal and monetary stimuli would pep up the recovery only at the price of re-igniting inflation. The rate of consumer price increases has dropped from 12% in 1974 to 3.7% in March; that may have been a fluke, but Eckstein expects it to average 4% to 6% for all of 1976. Sprinkel, however, is concerned that a stepped-up recovery would send inflation up again in 1977, forcing the Goveminent to crack down on demand; that would cause production to fall and unemployment to rise once more...
Joan (Ann Reinking) comes on like a female Vince Lombardi who feels she can psych Charley into a zest for winning. She sings pep talks at him like To Make the Boy a Man and I Am Going to Love (the Man You're Going to Be). But somehow he never seems to become quite the man that she is. She dominates the action, partly because playgoers cannot really forget Shaw's Saint Joan, though nothing, unfortunately, has been borrowed from G.B.S...
...expert asked by the M.C. to explain why that week's games had been such high-scoring affairs, answered: "This may sound like a stupid remark, but now you've got a lot of colored boys playing football, and they're damn good athletes who put a lot of pep into the game...