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Upthink all the way was the intended theme as the Democratic National Committee and members of the Cam paign Conference for Democratic Women converged on Washington last week for their pre-election rah-rah session. Unsurpassed prosperity and the unmatched legislative record of the 89th Congress seemed the ideal sword and buckler for the combat ahead. "Go forth," enjoined Hubert Humphrey, "with almost a crusading zeal to talk about not only what we've done, but how we've done...
...Rah, rah, sis boom bah, yippeda, yippeda, yipe. Yo ho heave ho, bibbedy, boppety, boo poop be doo dah. Zippy poo bang wow joo gee pow, pow pow, pow. Yap, sap, flap, trap, blap, bongada bongada...
...summertime preschooling program for five-and six-year-olds financed by federal anti-poverty funds. Like Head Start, they were pioneered by private foundations, then picked up by Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity. Under the $2.5 million Government program-which, in the mania for rah-rah labels, Shriver calls Upward Bound -about 2,500 high school kids are enrolled in eight-week summer-training courses at 17 colleges, while another 25 projects are still privately financed. The Tragic View. Like Columbia's Double Discovery, the projects pluck kids out of stifling home environments, plop them down...
...Lancaster slides down embankments, scales walls and leaps on and off cannonballing locomotives, spurning all stunt-man fakery. But not for a moment does he seem to be a French patriot named Labiche, and Train slows to a crawl when he abruptly turns culture-conscious, exhorting his comrades in rah-team dialogue to risk their necks for art: "It's our national heritage-the glory of France!" To make Lancaster's accent less obtrusive, the voices of Michel Simon and other French conspirators are poorly dubbed into working-class Americanese. Scofield, a gaunt attention-getter in accented English...
...have to wax eloquent or be a rah-rah" to recruit at Harvard (and a few other schools, including Yale, Berkeley, and Stanford), Delano insisted. "A greater degree of self-awareness" accounts for an acceptance average at these schools which is about twice as high as that of the nation as a whole, he said...