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...Montreal native took all 18 games he contested. He allowed double digits in but one game, blazing his last in a series of impressive trails that will long be remembered in collegiate squash circles. In the finals, Desaulniers shut our Ned Edwards of Penn...
During the last few weeks, Harvard students have been looking up from their goolash-on-a-stick to see an unfamiliar face give a speech on poverty in Boston. But unlike the blaring megaphones in Harvard Square, or the threatening posters of the Spartacus Youth League, Edward "Ned" Coll offers easy access to activism, a tangible opportunity to help someone else, and a chance to come in contact with one of the most remarkable social activists in the nation...
...more you learn about Ned Coll the more you are certain he is a lunatic. Looking wildly around as he speaks, waving his hands madly or clenching his fists in manic frustration, he is the Evel Kneivel of activism, a man who has performed daring stunts in the name of social causes. He fasted for 40 days to call attention to the plight of the elderly in Hartford, Conn., he walked from Hartford to Washington to debate a fuel bill for the poor before Congress, he sloshed along the shores of Rhode Island all the way to Greenwich to protest...
Although he is now spending a couple of days a week here attempting to revitalize that spirit, Ned Coll isn't big on Harvard. In a recent organizational meeting against the draft, as Harvard students quibbled over semantics, motioning this, seconding that, Coll began his remarks, "I used to think Harvard was full of shit. Now I can smell it." It is hard to disagree when Harvard activism is sparked by self-interest, a yearning for the cliquishness of a popular cause, or a self-righteous condemnation of injustices thousands of miles away...
...penetrating eyes and a fierce bark. When he tries and fails to start his new church, he meets a large array of even greater crackpots: a charlatan street preacher who fakes blindness (Harry Dean Stanton), a zookeeper (Daniel Shor) in search of an animalistic deity, an evangelical merchandising expert (Ned Beatty) and some sex-starved belles (Amy Wright, Mary Nell Santacroce). Huston has great affection for these people, even if Hazel does not: the misfits are celebrated not only for their lunacies but for their comic inability to square their passions with normal spiritual or temporal ambitions. About Hazel, however...