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Harvard clearly had different expectations than the other five teams entered in the Invitational. While the other squads all shaved and tapered their training for the meet, the Crimson elected to remain unshaven until later in the season, when it gears up for both its dual meet with Princeton and the Eastern Championships...
...were unshaven, looked haggard and dazed and stared vacantly...
...stumbles when it comes to the Amish, who have stubbornly resisted the Social Security program and other government rules and regulations. The latest conflict has cropped up in Mesopotamia (pop. 2,000), Ohio, 40 miles east of Cleveland, where Amish Volunteer Fire Fighters Eli Miller and Noah Mullet go unshaven as a sign of personal simplicity. A new state law forbids fire fighters to wear beards in the line of duty. The reason: facial hair prevents a proper seal from forming between the skin and a breathing mask, which fire fighters are required to use near flames...
David Silver, as the diarist narrator, with his sheared hair, unshaven face and ripped pajamas, appears a convincing lunatic. Moreover, he delivers his many long monologues with the curious self-absorption of a madman, drawing the audience into his twisted world where dogs write letters, the earth is crashing into the moon and a Russian bureaucrat can discover that he's actually the king of Spain. As he loses himself more and more in his delusions, the real pain behind his situation becomes clear, and the audience realizes that class boundaries separate him forever from the general's daughter with...
Another factor working against Brown is that many squads will be shaving to eliminate water resistance for the first time this year. Pitt and Brown have gone the entire season unshaven, and the times in the meet should be very fast...