Word: grinding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...daily grind of hearings under bright television lights is hard even for younger members of the committee. Hawaii's Daniel Inouye, 48, feels fatigued at the end of the day and suffers from severe headaches. Ervin seems to be surviving well. He husbands his strength. Ervin and his wife of 49 years, Margaret, still live as quietly as ever in their two-bedroom apartment a few hundred yards from the Capitol. The Ervins have been forced to get an unlisted phone number. The Senator still goes to sleep at his customary 11 p.m. He gets...
MUCH more serious, though, is that Susan Sontag still appears to be one of those people more interested in Making Movies than in making a particular movie. She has no religious anguish to purge, no personal vision to express, no political axe to grind. This makes for wonderful objectivity, but it also makes for emotional sterility...
...tune is very well mixed, so if you listen through headphones you can hear Muldaur's glassy slide guitar on the left channel and Amos Garrett's lead guitar on the right, both in conversation with Paul's biting harp way up in the mix. Muldaur and Butterfield grind out the vocals una voce and, in the company of Maria Muldaur's (Geoff's wife) restrained fiddle, the band displays one of the best personal interpretations of Delta blues that has come out in a long time...
...Does the grind of the tour get you down? (Mentally yes. Physically no.) Wasn't Lesley Hunt a tough first round draw? (She certainly was. That's the luck of the draw. Tomorrow I've got Kerry Harris in the second round, and last week I played her in the finals...
...travel to sone new places this spring with an expanded staff and more frequent issues. Women, Medical Ethics, and Books and Literature will be our pre-Easter themes. After vacation, we turn to American Culture, Cambridge, and The University, with a Photography Supplement to round out the reading period grind...