Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acting is completely gimmicky, but with fast and clever gimmicks. Chumley has mastered an idiot grin, and cartwheels admirably across the stage. Miss Bush and her counterpart Dame Chat (Joan Tolentino) scream too much, but their grimaces and multicolor petticoats (Lewis Smith's costuming is superb) more than compensate. In smaller parts, David Dunton as a myopic curate is the only actor to read, rather than chant his lines, and his care pays off in laughs. Ed Jay, Jr., as a sleepy Linus-figure with a patchwork blanket, is trapped in his one sight gag, but is pleasant enough...
...McLoone, another sophomore, took third. McLoone has improved rapidly after a slow start this season. Like Hardin, he'll be around for a long time. Jim Smith finished fourth in 29:00, and captain Jim Baker rounded out the scoring for the Crimson. Baker's showing will be especially heartening to Harvard coach Bill McCurdy since the lanky senior's troublesome ankle has been hurting his performance...
...Wilkins, alone, launched a full-scale attack against the concept of black power, going so far as to deplore the very use of the words. "Black power is racism in reverse," he said, reassuring the white liberals in the N.A.A.C.P. that they were needed, after all. Lillian Smith, author of Killers of the Dream and one of CORE's charter members, summarized the feelings of many white members of SNCC and CORE when she left the organization in a huff of epithets: "nihilists, old-fashioned haters, the new 'killers of the dream...
...contest will probably be decided in the secondary group. Like Harvard, Cornell has consistently had trouble breaking up the opposition's middle-placers. The Big Red's sophomore Ron Nehring will probably battle it out with Harvard's Jim Smith for third place. Smith has finished third in every meet...
...crippled squad has won with problems worse than these. Coach Bill McCurdy will bank on Smith and sophomore Tim McLoone to even up the team's record...