Word: guts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gut reaction favors Penn, because they're the Jim Thorpe and Carlisle of 1968. But my wisdom and long experience at this sort of thing tells me to go with the home team. 17-15 sounds good, but 20-13 is more accurate...
...follower of Harold Stassen, applauding the Minnesotan's "campaign to liberalize the Republican Party." Stassen gave the young congressional candidate a hand that year, but a decade later tried to have him dumped as Dwight Eisenhower's running mate. In the interim, Nixon acquired a gut fighter's reputation that softened only after his forced retirement by defeats for the presidency in 1960 and the California governorship in 1962. Now he enjoys the active support of such diverse Republicans as Barry Goldwater and Jacob Javits, Strom Thurmond and Nelson Rockefeller...
...favorite hangout is a beer joint called Steppenwolf, so named by its original owner (Max Scherr) because that novel symbolizes the loneliness of the intellectual. At Harvard, where Hesse's books sell better than any of his contemporaries except Faulkner, Senior Joel Kramer says: "Reading him is a gut, emotional experience." Adds Harvard Graduate Student Mark Granovetter: "Well, he was the first hippie, wasn...
...rigid German society that seemed to crush his artistic sensibilities, he tried to commit suicide. His parents responded by sending him first to a faith healer, then to a school for the mentally retarded. In 1911, he visited India on a spiritual quest. World War I was a "gut, emotional, experience" for Hesse; renouncing German authoritarianism, he joined the pacifist Romain Rolland in writing antiwar tracts, and as a result fell into political, social and literary disfavor...
Part of the heat being generated against ROTC this fall undoubtedly comes from the war and the gut reaction against a military uniform it has induced. Pell accuses critics of the program of objecting on political rather than academic and administrative grounds, but his own defense of the program is ultimately political too. A supply of well-trained officers is necessary to "the hard-core national interest," he says, and without that supply, "the survival of the nation in a cruel world through the maintenance of adequate deterrent strength will be seriously jeopardized...