Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basic music, which, although it is often electric and artificial, is always simple. The sounds in I am the Walrus are designed too often to transmit literal ideas instead of feelings. For instance, there is a screen of static between the singer and the listener, the sound that a weak radio makes late at night. This is apparently to indicate that the Beatles are having a hard time getting through to their audience through all the haze of mass media. The music sets the tone for the lyrics by sounding like a dirge. With all its intriguing esoterica the Walrus...
...Terriers have two good performers in events where Harvard is weak. Sprinter Dick Farley will be strong in the 40-yard dash. Farley, who captained the Terrier football team, is B.U.'s record-holder in the triple jump. He will race another football player, the Crimson's Bill Cobb, who came up with a surprise win against Army Saturday...
Throughout the afternoon the Army strength lay in its reserves. Harvard took seven of the eleven first places in the individual events but the Crimson backup men were weak. Army took seven of the eleven seconds and eight thirds...
...French and the Americans: The French are weak, cowardly, intelligent. The Yanks are strong, brave and dumb...
...University of Toronto is not expected to give Harvard much trouble. Its top three players--Frank Buck, Vic Harding, and Mike Gardiner--are veterans, but below them the team appears weak...