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...birth, they had no use for original thought. "All we cared about was implementation and results." Getting results could just as easily mean dealing with counter-revolutionaries as with raising the pig-fat production quota. In fact, the "struggle" technique was the same for both-a sort of continuing pep rally, or ideological mass rape, during which all opposition is drowned in slogans, charges and insults...
EVERY YEAR a Dunster House chemistry tutor sits down to dinner and finds a group of seniors waxing eloquent about revitalizing the Harvard Advocate. This year, upon discovering the annual Advocate pep rally, the tutor said, "Boys and girls, if the Advocate were smart, you'd print that mag on soft paper, and we'd make it functional as toilet paper." Everyone laughed, and someone suggested that it would be worthwhile to get the tutor to use toilet paper, and a timid voice in the corner said, "But Fred, isn't the Gazette enough?" and there was more laughter...
...game in 1968 really turned out to be The Game. With both teams undefeated, the cards were on the table so to speak, and with the pregame psychology, there was no need for any pep talks. I was particularly "up" because of the boast of the Harvard defense it was going to make a loser out of me for the first time. After three-and-a-half quarters of play, I think everyone realized Yale had the stronger team. However, it is the mark of a great team that will not quit. Not much had been going right for Harvard...
LIKE an old coach delivering his half-time pep talk, President Richard Nixon gathered his team round the table in the Cabinet Room last week to reassure them that the 1970 election was no worse than a tie-and that what counts is what happens two years hence, in 1972. The Nixon players came in two platoons: first the Cabinet members and then some 30 top-echelon White House aides. With Daughter Tricia seated beside him, Nixon spent nearly an hour laying down his analysis of the returns. His conclusion: "The election, ideologically, was enormously successful...
Even for the most liberated of women, a man sometimes comes in handy. Actress Jane Fonda's handyman last week was Lawyer-Author Mark Lane (Rush to Judgment), who flew from New York to Cleveland to spring Jane from jail. Charged with importing some 2,000 tranquilizers and pep pills from Canada and roughing up a cop and a customs agent to boot, Jane, 32, said of her overnight stay in stir: "When you think that the best people in this country are now in jail, I didn't mind it at all." For Dewi Sukarno, 30, widow...