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...Massive Putdown. Opposition to established thought?or to "conventional wisdom," as he derisively calls it?is hardly a new role for Harvard's Warburg Professor of Economics. TV crews wait so often outside his home in Cambridge, Mass., to catch him for a pungent comment on events of the day that Galbraith, jokes one admirer, now trails only Lexington and the Concord Bridge as a major Massachusetts
Jack Garrity stuffed in Bobby Bauer's bullet center at 18:12 of the second period to spark the Harvard hockey team's 6-4 putdown of Boston College in the semi-final of the Beanpot Tournament in the Boston Garden last night. Boston University topped Northeastern 7-4 in the evening's sloppy opener and will face the Crimson in the final next Monday...
...left to call his own. In other areas he can chart his performance by comparison with that of the rest of the nation, thereby diminishing, to some degree, the sense of the unique and the special. With this final invasion of his privacy you commit the ultimate putdown. May your computers clog...
Stage humor is in transition. The old humor of the gag and the wise crack was confident, benign, a pick-me-up rather than a putdown. The new humor, which draws its tone from play wrights such as Albee and Pinter, is cruel, taut-nerved, and speaks the lingo of the obscene and the absurd, not funny-ha-ha but funny-peculiar. The new humor reigns in off-Broadway's Scuba Duba, a flagellatingly funny first play by Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman (Stern, A Mother's Kisses...
...stunned! The cover story on Johnny Carson [May 19] was not up to TIME's "putdown profiles." It was quite objective. It is nice to know that Carson "packs a tight suitcase." It takes talent to come across so warmly on TV and still remain a private person who doesn't succumb to pleas to "tell all" about his life...