Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blunt truth is that the Beatles were inventive harmonically and had two major rock poets (John Lennon and Paul McCartney) in their number; no lyric like She's Leaving Home or With a Little Help from My Friends or Eleanor Rigby is within the Rollers' capacity, range or competence. In their favor is the fact that the young have been waiting for new rock heroes for years. Maybe-just maybe-the Rollers are next...
Part of Steve Hall's problems stems from the fact that he often is too direct and overly blunt with people. He does not try to mask or gloss over his feelings, as so many in University and Mass Halls do; instead he often says things on impulse, without calculating how people will react to them. This problem has led Hall into some sticky situations when, for instance, he has been called by The Crimson for comment on a volatile story. Bok and others in Mass Hall have recognized this and have encouraged Hall to quell his impulse to express...
Doctorow is equally blunt about his own future: "I don't want to teach at a small college. I don't want to end up at some third-rate place in Mauritania." With a shortage of acceptable teaching jobs, however, Doctorow is understandably grateful to the center: it occasionally provides paper and shelter for young, unemployed scholars...
...great earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault is about one every 100 years, so a significant probability exists of another within the next 30 years." Another specialist, Berkeley's Karl V. Steinbrugge, perhaps the country's leading expert on designing quake-resistant buildings, is even more blunt. Says he: "Thousands of lives snuffed out in 30 seconds is going to blow the roof off this country. And it's going to happen...
Died. Pinhas Sapir, 66, Israel's political gray eminence; of a heart attack; during a visit to Nevatim, a Negev agricultural village. Nicknamed "Bulldozer" for his drive and blunt pugnacity, burly, Polish-born Sapir immigrated to Palestine in 1929, was jailed by the British in 1933 for his militant labor organizing, and became David Ben-Gurion's roving weapons buyer during the 1948 war of independence. As Commerce and later Finance Minister for most of the past 20 years, Sapir was Israel's Midas, tapping his broad foreign contacts for the billions of dollars needed for arms...