Word: gristly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...January 18, McGovern announced that he is a candidate for President. The timing of the announcement coming more than a year before the first primary, was unprecedented. The campaign, up until now, has provided little more than grist for the columnists' mills on slow news days. Yet this is the way McCarthy's campaign began in 1967. McCarthy's announcement, like McGovern's, was greeted with wide yawns (and sly smiles). Neither candidate, when he announced, was given even the slimmest chance of success...
Students have played an increasingly important role in the campaign, not as canvassers or volunteers, but as an issue. The deaths at Kent State, the wave of bombings, the Weatherman fall offensive have all provided grist for the conservative mill. All across the country liberal candidates are shying away from defending students. No one can really predict the effects of an Agnew tongue lashing on a candidate and liberals in general are taking no chances. Check out the store front office of Ted Kennedy in Boston if you don't believe...
Fourth Man. "Martina has never changed," remarks Met Coloratura Reri Grist, a longtime friend. "She is the same person whether she talks to royalty or the janitor." Perhaps that is because when she was a child in Harlem, her father sometimes had to eke out his income as a mechanical engineer by working as an apartment house superintendent. Her mother occasionally hired out as a domestic. Martina was bright enough to pass the entrance tests at a demanding but free special high school run by Manhattan's Hunter College. Later, she went through Hunter itself in three years, majoring...
...drop-outs and trip-takers. Only now do we begin to realize fully the alternatives that John Lennon and Mick Jagger, peaceful Woodstock and murderous Altamont, Christ and Satan represent in terms of the counter culture. Only now is it becoming obvious that the underside of our culture is grist for the mill of the increasingly homicide-oriented national culture...
...Ethnic Grist. Still, Cosby's material has a blackness all its own. All ghetto humor is basically ethnic. U.S. minorities have traditionally preserved their identities by laughing at their origins. Cosby's North Philadelphia is as rich in ethnic grist as Manhattan's Lower East Side was for a generation of Jewish comedians. Consciously or not, there is a deeper facet of Negro heritage in Cosby: his penchant for outrageous hyperbole. When one of his TV pupils asks "Chet Kincaid" (Cosby) why he must take gym, he hears: " 'Cause you got to get in shape...