Word: guts
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Alfred said his course "is easy, but that doesn't mean it's gut." "Students are so good at it because it's the literature of their age," he said yesterday. Students claim the course "isn't graded terribly hard" and is relaxed. A final exam question last year asked for a comparison between Bonnie of Bonnie and Clyde and Desdemona of Othello...
History 134a, a legendary gut under the late Crane Brinton '19, was last year's largest course with 765 students. This year, taught by H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History, it has dropped off the list, along with Math...
...with Hawkeye State voters. Even placid Iowa is concerned about law and order. Stanley stresses law enforcement, "including civil rights laws," while Hughes underlines justice as a prerequisite. Nevertheless, lowans like their Governor's forthright ways, and this works in Hughes' favor. "I mainly talk from my gut," says Hughes. His often ragged syntax bears witness to a formal education that ended after a year of college, and he can cuss like a teamster. Once, local legend has it, he convened a meeting with the words: "All right, you sons of bitches, let's pray...
Return of the WASP. Though no writer has spoken more disparagingly of the small-hearted WASPs of small-town America, Mailer begins to seem almost sympathetic toward them. "They had been a damned minority for too long, a huge indigestible boulder in the voluminous, ruminating government gut of every cow-like Democratic Administration. Perhaps the WASP had to come to power in order that he grow up, in order that he take the old primitive root of his life-giving philosophy-which required every man to go through battles, if the world would live, and every woman to bear...
Essentially, Nixon is trying to steer between the crass appeals to animosity of Wallace and the orthodox liberal approach of Humphrey. Eschewing concrete proposals, Wallace aims at his listeners' gut feeling that crime must be quashed by any means available. Nixon attempts to sound both alarmed and controlled at the same time, but the element of alarm seems to be winning out. He cites the FBI figures without qualification: "If the present rate of new crime continues, the number of rapes and robberies and assaults and thefts in the U.S. today will double...