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...stories are far more accessible when reflective whimsy eases the tension, as in the two afterlife fantasies. One of these entitled "Laugh Kookaberry, Laugh Kookaberry, Gay Your Life Must Be" and concerning Dante and devils in Hell, shows the considerable influence of C.S. Lewis, which combines with passion and lively musing to create by far the richest piece in Bedlam. Some dialogue is still overwrought and unconvincing to when the two devils "argue...
...true that we tend to get on the bandwagon when a fad, like fitness, becomes popular. Nonetheless, we are a people who can laugh at ourselves. Long may our arms wave-and our feet pound the country roads and the park paths...
CHEAP vituperation and petty chauvinism are rarely more apparent than on Harvard-Yale weekend. Traditionally, most of it comes from the other side. We could laugh off their peculiar taunts of "Yale Reject!", knowing the opposite to be almost exclusively the case. Down in New Have, one could assume, they had nothing better to do than buy blue and white scarves (the Official Yale Scarf, incidentally, is manufactured in Harvard Square), carve their initials into the tables down at Mory's, import girls for football weekends. Harvard was more worldly than that, initiating academic, political and social trends which Yale...
Suddenly, as the projector rolls on and on. Harvard starts to send Cuccia in motion on every play. The Man starts to chuckle again, as yellow flags and incomplete passes are falling everywhere. Allard rolls out and almost collides with Cuccia. The Man really starts to laugh now, Allard connects for completions to both Cuccia and Callinan--The Man catches his breath for a moment--but then the flags start to fly once more...
...room is dark, except for the figures dancing on the screen, and The Man, he can only laugh...