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...demarcation point became clear this Sunday when the Class Day selection committee chose Robert Ullman's speech, originally submitted for the comic Ivy Oration, as the winner of the serious Harvard oration competition. Ullman is revising his speech, which the Class Day committee members described as "poignant." But he says that the selection makes the quality of his humor a little suspect. He claims that his topic, the story of Morton Zyzford, a real cypher who can't come to terms with Harvard, has a serious message about the importance of success. The overall tone will stay light, he says...
...made Morton an extreme case of failure, so no one would think about him too much, but would realize that they had shared his feelings of failure while at Harvard," Ullman says. He adds he would like to make Morton a hero of some sort, so if people felt they had not succeeded by Harvard standards, it is possible they might have done something right anyway. Although Morton will be given dreams and realistic views which the author says he does not accept, the speech will be more entertaining than critical...
...given the oration in the late 1960s, Ullman says, he "would have been rallying around a great cause. People aren't as receptive to causes anymore. This is a time to find out what causes are there, not a time to run out and change things...
...Neill has carefully selected the 27 Democrats on the committee from a startling total of 140 volunteers. (There are also 13 Republican members picked by House Minority Leader John Rhodes.) The roster includes chairmen of some of the committees dealing with energy, including Oregon's Al Ullman, head of Ways and Means, who is one of the few lawmakers who think that the proposal for a progressive gas tax will pass. Another key member: Interior's Mo Udall, who favors Carter's program, although he wishes it included one of his favorite goals-breaking...
...sophomore Democrats who were elected by appealing to moderate Republicans and independents. "Remember," says a political analyst at Common Cause, the liberal lobby, "a lot of these guys ran against the old politics-and there's nothing older than George Meany twisting arms." Even old-line Democrat Al Ullman, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and a longtime friend of the unions, opposed the cornmon-situs bill because he thought it potentially inflationary and disruptive to the depressed building industry...