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...audience feels this, too, but there is something uneasy, something dishonest in Herb Gardner's original Broadway comedy. The fact is that Murray, however appealing, is disgusted with the very world that creates the play: his snide, wise-guy humor and his rah-rah sense of fun sit smugly in the hackneyed phrases and conditioned attitudes of the Madison Avenue mentality he scorns. This is hardly getting down to the roots of self-honesty. When a sentimental and moralizing tone begins to rear its nasty little head near the end, the message, which is fairly muddled anyway, becomes downright offensive...
...lucky greeting said "Hi Al and Curt, Hi NBC, Hi Mom, Go J.B. Rah Crimson...
...Pierre doesn't consider himself to be a vocal type who will do a lot of cheer leading to psyche a team up. "I'm definitely not a rah-rah type, although a little of that is good for a team," he said. "Example is the best way to be a captain...
...once did publically root for a Yale. Because he was my student, of course. Last September as Frank Shorter entered the stadium en route to Olympic triumph. I allowed a passionate phrase to escape the barrier of my teeth. It was something pithy along the lines of "go" or "rah." I forget exactly what, since the moment is enveloped in high emotion. I think Frank deserved this encouragement because he had beaten the world--though he could never beat Harvard. Indeed I had countless times watched Doug Hardin '68 whip his ass in H.Y. competition. But Hardin retired to play...
Cambridge's finest breakfast table daily, The Harvard Crimson, will publish a special rah, rah beat Yale issue on Saturday, November 25. The edition will be available to all plucky fans at Soldiers field for two dimes and a nickel...