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Rock seems to have its own mile-wide streak of goody-goody moralism (with some standouts like Janis Ian, Jackson Browne, and Bruce Hornsby who are nothing but).
Universities are playing parent again, reported the New York Times this month: Pennsylvania State University now hosts an alcohol-free student center that features adult-supervised weekend parties; the University of Wisconsin has started theater outings for students and staff; the University of Virginia may start telling parents of student drinking violations; Lehigh University prohibits campus parties without a staff member or approved adult in attendance; and after 10 students suffered alcohol poisoning in January, Princeton University banned its annual Nude Olympics, in which students streak naked through campus on the night of the year's first snowfall.
And finally, the tabloids try to account for the end of soap star Susan Lucci's 18-time losing streak at the daytime Emmys.
But even Carlson thinks Al Gore's un-glitzy, pro-test-ban TV ad was smart, and Susan Page ( Late Edition ) thinks Gore's pro-treaty stance will help him with women voters (who worry about nuclear apocalypse more than men) and Iowa Democrats (who have a lingering nuclear-freeze streak in them from the 1980s).
And I use the word "play" advisedly: Innovative thinkers, in economics and other disciplines, often have a pronounced whimsical streak.