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...Boston Gridiron Club had the last rave about Bobby Leo's fantastic varsity career when it selected the Harvard halfback as the 1966 recipient of the George Bolger Lowe Award Saturday...
...Jean-Claude van Itallie, is a three-playlet wedding between pop art and the theater of cruelty. It is an off-Broadway trip through an air-conditioned blightmare towards an icy emptiness at the core of American life, the land of the Deepfreeze and the home of the rave, of the neon smile and the plastic heart...
Royal Nightmare. Not much else has changed for Streisand since she became the Funny Girl. Success hasn't spoiled her. It hasn't even convinced her. She got rave reviews and an S.R.O. Funny Girl run in London, but she was nightmarishly maladroit when she met Princess Margaret. Arriving late at the receiving line, she apologized to Her Royal Highness: "I got screwed up." She still worries that her cult of followers will desert her. "Barbra," says her producer-actor husband, Elliott Gould, "is the kind of person who is hurt if her puppy walks past...
...judgment of only one student, and was so presented in Slate. Slate admitted that some students had praised Haller on several counts. In fact, Slate is at some pains to make it clear that student judgments are entirely personal, and that what one student deplores, another may rave about. As graduate students of Professor Haller's, we would like to redress the balance by stating that we find him a sound, helpful teacher, and a very decent human being who has earned our liking and respect...
...epigraph, the author quotes Dylan Thomas' splendid hymn to his dying father: "Do not go gentle into that good night. / Old age should burn and rave at close of day; / Rage rage against the dying of the light. . . ." Perhaps Simone de Beauvoir's rage against death was, as it explicitly was for Dylan Thomas, a form of prayer...