Word: grips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great madmen of the past, both historical and literary, in the same breath as incidents and personages of contemporary madness. Interspersed with this plethora of examples are the case histories of six individuals whom society at one time deemed insane, and whom he now describes with a Kafkaesque grip on sanity their journey through madness and back. Never is there the sense, though, that this perambulation is leading anywhere, except into a confusion between the social and individual aspects of insanity...
Isaac's family slowly pries loose his grip on its life. His wife deserts him. His barked order no longer controls his anarchic daughter Marilyn, a Sarah Lawrence spitfire who consumes and casts off husbands. He can no longer reach his gently demented mother, who brings Arabs home to bed down in her rag shop. Isaac's brother Leo is an alimony evader who would rather stay in jail playing pinochle with his wardens than return to the streets. The cop's only solace resides in the bear hugs of Ida Stutz, the devoted fiancee who spoons...
...home, in full Nazi regalia, including hobnailed boots, Iron Cross medallion, World War II helmet, and leather whip. He has developed a hold which translates into English as "The Claw." When applied to the soft underbelly of the soft underbelly of an inexperienced grappler, von Erich's steel hard grip can gouge through ordinary flesh and grasp ever-so vital internal organs. Von Erich is equipped with a device which was developed late in the War--a sort of belt which wraps around his genitalia. It is electronically attuned to his body smell. When he begins to lose, and starts...
Carter also tried last week to prove that a down-home country boy can have a good grip on foreign affairs. Six weeks earlier, he had asked three of his foreign policy advisers-Professors Zbigniew Brzezinski and Richard Gardner of Columbia and Milton Katz of Harvard-to prepare an outline for a comprehensive policy statement. Using that document, Carter and his staff worked up drafts for a speech, consulting with Cyrus Vance, a Deputy Defense Secretary in the Johnson Administration...
...Indeed, attempts to find hidden motives for the resignation do not hold up. His health apparently was not a factor. He looked ruddy and vigorous last week, belying rumors that he has been plagued with various maladies. Nor is there any evidence that he felt he was losing his grip on the party, even though he was embarrassed and angered by the rebellion earlier this month of the so-called Tribune Group, composed of 37 far left Laborites. They balked at a new Wilson stratagem to tamp down inflation through deep cuts in social service spending and forced Wilson...