Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their ultra-American patriotism, the cadet seniors had saved up their base pay for four years in order to buy the ultimate symbol of traditional American brute power and gaudiness, a Chevrolet Corvette. GM's domination served as a fitting contrast to Cambridge, where such automotive monstrosities are rare and BMW's and Volkswagens are the only cars one seems to see. The fact that I have a BMW, however, makes the validity of this analysis open to serious doubt...
...this year reflects the lack of being taught how to solve the problems on the exams, as much as it indicates any disinclination for hard work or for science. When a professor flunks a student, particularly in a subject like organic which requires a certain art in addition to brute memorization, it is an indictment of the quality of teaching...
Deliverance, John Boorman's best film yet doesn't have anything new to say (thank God) about the lack of morality in brute nature. Still, its pro-civilization sentiments are refreshing, its recreation of a moral vacuum in Georgia backlands terrifying, and its pure adventure sequences on the Cahulawassee. River among the best action filmed. John Voight turns in a fine star performance as a symp turned strongman...
...month old, LaVelle's introduction to the trade began two years ago when Author Studs Terkel recruited him for neighborhood-tavern discussions that Terkel was filming for the National Education Television network. Once he was assured that Terkel did not want to portray him as a "hardhat brute," LaVelle agreed to take part. LaVelle's TV appearances led to a correspondence with the Village Voice and the publication of one of LaVelle's critical letters in the paper; a Tribune editor asked him to submit his written view of the McGovern candidacy. "I tried to explain that...
...Ghost Got In. He imagines that he is writing Walter Mitty: ta-pocketa, ta-pocketa, go the typewriter keys. He remembers Thurber's unsettling word games-mice in chimes, lips in pistol-and plays a game of his own that he has played before: her, hurt, rue, brute in Thurber; the battle of the sexes, the dogs. What hides in Holmes? SOLEM? No, it doesn't quite work. M-O-L-E does, though...