Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...differences, though, there still was a bit of Watson Rink around--at least in atmosphere. While Team USA trounced the Crimson, 5-0, in the opening night exhibition, the band led a harassment of Team USA goalie Jim Craig...
Laryngitis-ridden Dave Eaton missed the game entirely for the Crimson and a number of Harvard's key players battled bothersome leg problems. Mauro Keller-Sarmiento came back after missing two games but still ran somewhat gingerly on a tender ankle that a cut up, muddy field made even more of a handicap...
...Still, as a good soldier, Helms was dragged into operations against his better judgment. A case in point was the attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro. As the author describes the episode, John and Bobby Kennedy told the CIA to get rid of Castro. That is why Helms was so disgusted during the later Senate investigation of the CIA when Frank Church demanded written proof of an order to kill the Cuban leader. Helms felt like responding (but didn't): "Senator, how can you be so goddamned dumb? You don't put an order like that in writing...
Granted, show business folk have every right to politick. And politicians are entitled to use every self-serving gimmick that the law allows. Still, given the American tendency to worship stars, one may wonder whether eventually show business might be too casually accepted as an appropriate training ground for political leadership. The question is pertinent even if California's election of Actor George Murphy as a U.S. Senator is shrugged off as a typical West Coast aberration...
...sheer fact of the politics-show biz mingling may be no cause for worry. Still, too intimate a consortium would do the country no good. The electorate should remain a skeptical and demanding constituency, but the ubiquitous looming of star performers does tend to turn it into a distracted audience. The capacity to achieve effects by glitter and glamour is not likely to inspire politics toward greater integrity. Nor are theatrical atmospherics apt to move the public to examine more soberly issues that too few Americans take seriously even...