Word: brutishness
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...college football's first big weekend, the big news was that Notre Dame, after so-so seasons, was well and brutish again-outweighing, outrunning, outclassing Oklahoma 19-6. Two 1960 powerhouses continued winning ways, Syracuse dropping West Virginia 29-14, Washington outsizing Illinois 20-7. But Minnesota, No. 1 last year, lost a 6-0 thriller to Missouri. Football's oldest college rivalry saw Rutgers this time victorious over Princeton...
...certainly seems a curious sort of year-long social mixer, and an equally curious way of protecting people from themselves. Perhaps there is something to this kind of defense, but even if proven, it would only have begun to justify the requirement. As it is, PT is nasty, brutish, and nowhere near short enough...
...Explosive Piano of Herman Foster (Epic). Pianist Foster chops out brutish chords with a macelike hand in Yesterdays, contributes a sweet and swinging solo to Like Someone in Love, and generally comports himself like a man with something...
Aside from an automatic attack on the "brutish imperialist beasts" of the U.S. Senate, Castro displayed uncharacteristic restraint. He announced that Cuba would "soon" become a one-party state (which it is in practice), but added that "true socialism" could not be achieved for a few years. He said that he had no intention of halting the flood of exiles ("those worms and parasites") leaving the new socialism, but held out a carrot to what remains of Cuba's middle class by promising small businessmen that the change would be gradual, even voluntary. "A socialist society is not reached...
...clown to agents and publishers, sexual adventuresses and adoring disciples. He is found one morning, overcome by escaping gas, in the apartment of an admirer who lies sprawled nude on the sofa. The girl dies immediately, but Clem lingers several days-time enough for the "trooping animals," with "a brutish anxiety not to let him go," to cluster in the hospital. Novelist Cassill parrots John Malcolm Brinnin's gruesome description of Dylan Thomas' similar death in an oxygen tent, concluding with the moment in which a fellow poet clasped "the cold, yellowing feet" of the corpse...