Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brulin moved from Antioch to the Caribbean island of Curasao, a group of his devoted students joined him, and in 1971 they formed Otrabanda (named for the black residential quarter of Curasao-known as "the other side"). After returning to the U.S., the company employed Brulin's brash, blunt, highly physical and often noisy techniques mainly on tours to colleges and universities. "We played to very elite audiences," says Otrabandist David Dawkins, "which was exactly what we didn't want to get into. We wanted to play to everyone...
...runs through the channels--or slips through the fingers--of popularizers and funny men in the pink-gloved Shavian tradition. But playing the dialectical scales with a ten-foot pole of fashionable sentiment tends to lopsided results. Such practices may sharpen the edge of wit but they blunt, if not miss, the point of dialectics. Hence the temptation to subscribe to the thesis that whatever the depth and seriousness of mind a dialectical command of reality requires, it must be incompatable with the temperamental high-jinks needed to produce...
...islands' booming tourist industry. "If the current pace of Japanese investment continues, it could mean foreign control of the state's leading industry within the next five years," concludes a report of the Republican caucus in the state house of representatives. A Honolulu cab driver is more blunt: "What the Japanese couldn't do during World War II, they are trying to do with bags of money-take over these islands...
Green was a blunt, unpretentious man. Sime Silverman, who founded the paper in 1905, hired Green in 1918; in 1933 Green began to edit the paper, was given a battered desk close to the window of Variety's office just off Manhattan's Times Square and never changed it. He was rarely without the bow tie and sleeve garters he affected to look like Sime. He seemed to know every entertainer, the famous and freakish alike. A walk down the street invariably involved dozens of exchanged greetings and many an impromptu conference. He found time to coauthor, with...
Despite his blunt language when aroused, Ervin is a compassionate man who has conducted his many committee hearings with courtesy and respect for witnesses. The transcripts are replete with phrases like "I am very much impressed by your statement" or "I want to congratulate you on the very lucid manner in which you stated your views." That is partly why Ervin seems to be the ideal Senator to hold those potentially volatile hearings on the many ramifications of Watergate...