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...fall into the category of the travelling salesman and farmer's daughter, or into the category of stupid. All are repetitious. There are some notable gimmicks, but to reveal them here would be to deprive them of any possible humor they might have had, because they are just that, substanceless gimmicks...

Author: By Ta-kuang Chang, | Title: Syphilitic Vaudeville | 10/9/1975 | See Source »

...more than a dozen Faculty profiles, good features on Harvard music and the Design School, and a long anthology of the best writing from undergraduate publications. Harvard would never buy the intensely orderly rah-rah spirit behind most high- school yearbooks, but the 1965-66 edition suggests that the substanceless artsiness of this year's number is not the only alternative...

Author: By Richards R. Edmonds, | Title: Three Thirty Three | 6/2/1969 | See Source »

...brothers and sisters now occurring across the country," is, at best, dangerously simplistic analysis. As Robert Coles pointed out Monday, the troops sent into burning ghettos go to protect black property as well as white. Afro is justified too in its anger at whites, who abuse his memory with substanceless odes to his non-violent tactics. But for Afro to put its energies into developing a fighting spirit and charting the logistics of racial warfare would be useless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Afro's Proposals | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

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