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The story of the crumbling of the Penn football team has been as pitiful as the success of last year's team was inspiring. Injuries have sidelined a lot of important people, and of course, unimportant people, too. But they were already sidelined anyway. Admitiably, however, the cross country and...
After the lecture, black student Yancy Miles '73 said, "It's disgusting to hear a black man say that." Black student Harold Cottman '73 said that Parker was "pitiful," and argued that "an individual black is only as strong as the group he belongs to."
The new movie biography called de Sade is also painful. Keir Dullea appears as the troubled marquis, and his vulpine, immobile face helps him to range between anger ("Don't you ever say 'Enough' to me!") and pitiful pleading ("But if ... I changed?") with indifference. The orgies...
Meanwhile, of course, he continues to live in a manner that would be impossible if it weren't for his parents' sellout, hypocritical, establishment, plastic lives. At the risk of sounding like the Midwestern Methodist I am, every single action of Benjamin Braddock's is that of a spoiled rotten...
Some of the other stories are better than Asimov's pitiful offering; some are worse. In "Budget Planet," Robert Sheckley has god speaking with a Yiddish accent. I'm not an especially reverent man, but I was grossed out, K. M. O'Donnell wrote a tedious novella called "Final War...